I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

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

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.