Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.