ailime a's List: Interestingness

• There he met philosopher Daniel Defert, who would become his lover of twenty years.
• The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning
• I don't write for an audience, I write for users, not readers
• by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure
• functioning of sexuality as an analytics of power related to the emergence of a science of sexuality (scientia sexualis) and the emergence of biopower in the West
• attacks the "repressive hypothesis," the widespread belief that we have, particularly since the nineteenth century, "repressed" our natural sexual drives
• "repression" of sexuality actually constituted sexuality as a core feature of human identities

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