a dream of unorganized assembly

Do you know it? You must know it. Not pain but what lies beyond pain.

“The effort of expression has a bearing not only on the form but on the thought and on the whole inner being. So long as bare simplicity of expression is not attained, the thought has not touched or even come near to true greatness… . The real way of writing is to write as we translate. When we translate a text written in some foreign language, we do not seek to add anything to it; on the contrary, we are scrupulously careful not to add anything to it. That is how we have to try to translate a text which is not written down.”

TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY.

Leave a birthday gift here. Maybe your kindness will make tomorrow a little brighter for me and my family.

“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”

It would be absurd to go to war against power in general. On the contrary, certain types of politics of power, certain types of arrangements of power, certain uses of language, notably national languages, are normalized in the context of an historical situation, which implies the seizure of power by a certain linguistic caste, the destruction of dialects, the rejection of special languages of all kinds -- professional as well as infantile or feminine--I think that is what happens. It would be absurd to oppose desire and power. Desire is power; power is desire. What is at issue is what type of politics is pursued with regard to different linguistic arrangements that exist. Because -- and this seems essential to me -- capitalist and bureaucratic socialist power infiltrate and intervene in all modes of individual semiotization; today, it proceeds more through semiotic subjugation than through direct subjugation by the police, or by explicit use of physical pressure. Capitalist power injects a microfascism into all the attitudes of the individuals, into their relation to perception, to the body, to children, to sexual partners, etc. If a struggle can be led against the capitalist system, it can only be done, in my opinion, by combining a struggle -- with visible, external objects -- against the power of the bourgeoisie, against its institutions and systems of exploitation, with a thorough understanding of all the semiotic infiltrations on which capital is based. Consequently, each time one detects an area of struggle against bureaucracy in the organizations, against reformist politics, etc., one must also see just how much we ourselves are contaminated by, are carriers of, this microfascism.