“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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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.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
