“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a "writer". You establish from yourself to yourself continuities and a level of coherence which is not quite the same as your real life... All this ends up constituting a kind of neo-identity which is not identical to your identity as a citizen or your social identity, Besides you know this very well, since you want to protect your private life.”
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“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. ”
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“it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“there is no glory in punishing”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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