"A starting point would be to say that one society is ‘better’ than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals. A second essential criterion would specify that these experiences should lead to the growth of the self on an individual level, by allowing as many people as possible to develop increasingly complex skills(57)."

"Modern society may be read as a discourse in which nominal freedom of action is cancelled by the ubiquitous look of the other(56)."

"‘Now at the beginning of the [French] Revolution, the end laid down for primary education was to be, among other things, to ‘fortify’, to ‘develop the body’, to prepare the child ‘for a future in some mechanical work’, to give him ‘an observant eye, a sure hand and prompt habits(58).’’"

"Discipline and Punish:the birth of the prison"

"Our dominations don’t work by medicalization and normalization anymore; they work by networking, communications redesign, stress management. … If we are imprisoned by language, then escape from that prison-house requires language poets, a kind of restriction enzyme to cut the code; cyborg heteroglossia is one form of radical culture politics(59)."

"Today, there are dozens of web pages with detailed information on the situation in Chiapas specifically and the state of democracy in Mexico more generally. Several widely used news and discussion lists devoted to the daily circulation of information and its assessment are available. These various interventions operate from many countries and in many languages, and they are all the result of work by those sympathetic to the rights of indigenous peoples and to the plight of the Zapatistas(60)."