Monday, September 14, 2009

What He Said

As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a "writer". You establish from yourself to yourself continuities and a level of coherence which is not quite the same as your real life...

All this ends up constituting a kind of neo-identity which is not identical to your identity as a citizen or your social identity, Besides you know this very well, since you want to protect your private life.'

Michel Foucault. (2004). 'Je suis un artificier'. In Roger-Pol Droit (ed.), Michel Foucault, entretiens. Paris: Odile Jacob, p. 106. (Interview conducted in 1975. This passage trans. Clare O'Farrell).

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6 comments:

  1. Barbara TempertonSeptember 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM

    I'll keep my eye out for you at the Sprung Writers Festival this weekend... I'm looking forward to a coffee at Cosi's.

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  2. C.Q WalkerSeptember 15, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    yep... what he said

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  3. sarah toaSeptember 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM

    Great BT, Saturday morning! I'll keep my eye out for you too. Nice to see you back C.Q!

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  4. sontagSeptember 16, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    Tell Foucault it's all a tangle...and to separate the strands is a job for no woman.

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  5. chrissieSeptember 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM

    doesn't that go for anything you do or say? - it's not like there is an essential core, just a whirling cosmos of stars that you call yrself because you inhabit one part of it more than another.

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  6. sarah toaSeptember 16, 2009 at 7:14 PM

    Thanks for your comments. I think Foucault obfuscates deliberately to have fun with the powers that be and stay just that little bit ahead of them.

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