But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.