foucault, michel

ooh, foucault is so irresistible! even after years away, i'm still so swayed by his sweet words.

"Silence itself--the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers--is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to them within over-all strategies."

[m. foucault, the history of sexuality, volume i]

also, note to self: find a way to disagree with those you love (see: foucault, barthes, benjamin) when you think they are wrong. because you do disagree with them often enough. that will improve you.