With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good but powerless to be it;… what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself.excerpt from Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville.
The system of surveillance… involves very little expense. There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze which each individual under its weight will end by interiorisation to the point that he is his own overseer, each individual thus exercizing this surveillance over, and against, himself. A superb formula: power exercised continuously and for what turns out to be minimal cost.Michael Foucault
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And when two people have loved each otherJane Hirshfield, from “For What Binds Us” (via proustitute)
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.
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I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time.Gabriel García Márquez (via matryoshhka)
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