“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”

— Michel Foucault, book The Archaeology of Knowledge

The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), tr. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon)

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