Status Updates From 傅柯的多重人生

There is nothing to suggest that Genet had ever read Foucault, or that he had any intention of doing so.

It is difficult to compare this to other Foucault biographies (it has been 30 years since I read them) but I’m finding this riveting.

Foucault’s ambition is to write, not the history of a language, but the archeology of a silence.

Foucault’s higher matriculation was at the same location and time as that of Boulez. I gather when the philosopher first saw the composer the latter was raging against Gide. I thought about how upset I was when Boulez trashed Shostakovich.