Michel Foucault book The Archaeology of Knowledge
The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), tr. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon)
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”
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