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.

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

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.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.