"As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."

Thought, End, Invention, Man

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"As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."

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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."

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

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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."

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"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."

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"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."

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