I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Quote by Roland Barthes

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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to...

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most...

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most...

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body...

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body...