The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no l….

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire poli….

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language t….

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and th….

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language,….

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s..

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision..

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering..

Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two wo….

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into ….

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power..

The author enters into his own death, writing begins..

Every photograph is a certificate of presence..

Literature is the question minus the answer..

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

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense..

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everyth….

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle..

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological o….