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

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.

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

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?