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Michel

I am here for Serious Relationships and Friends

About Me

People tend to find my intelligence, appearance, and voracious sexual appetite intimidating until they get to know me. I'm actually very shy and vulnerable, which is why I prefer to have anonymous trysts in bath houses rather than pursue meaningful relationships. I've been hurt very badly (that's right, Roland, I'm talking about you!) and am looking to establish a close, trust-filled open relationship, in which both partners would have the freedom to pursue other "interests," such as young men, handsome waiters, and other thinkers. S/M, Dom/Sub a must, and an appreciation for art would be preferred. À bientôt...

My Interests

Power, knowledge, bath houses, assless chaps, Borges, heterotopias, homosexuals, walks on the beach, archaeology, genealogy, sexuality, kinky man sex, prisons, madness, finitude, life (but not vitalism, vitalism sucks)...

I'd like to meet:

The harbinger of the next episteme.

Music:

Serge Gainsbourg, Mahler, Edith Piaf, George Brassens, Bach, Dolphy, Miles, 'Trane, La Companie Créole, the Floyd, The Stones, Boyz II Men

Books:

Anything by obscure European historians (in Latin, if possible), Roussel, Artaud, Nietzsche, Bataille, Blanchot, Danielle Steele, Oprah's latest Book of the Month (go girl!!!!)

Heroes:

Heroes are merely placeholders (lieu-tenants)...

My Blog

The Birth of the Clinic

I've kept quiet about this for a long, long time, but I can no longer rein in my anger. My friends, this concerns one of my earlier books, Naissance de la clinique, and the abhorrent, mutilated, misl...
Posted by Michel on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:30:00 PST

Transgression: power, libraries, and Japan

Like all institutions, the library is a space in which power applies itself to bodies and minds. From the arrangement of the chairs and tables to the imposition of silence to the requirement of a "li...
Posted by Michel on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:25:00 PST

Ninjas

I have always thought of myself as a philosophical ninja. Indeed, my works are deadly shuriken coursing their way toward the heart of all that conditions us to be as we are. Philosophy with a hammer...
Posted by Michel on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:09:00 PST

Self

It is raining in Paris again. Underneath my window, the students prepare for their classes, shouting, flirting, talking. On the page, there is a growing blob of ink where my pen has rested too long ...
Posted by Michel on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:21:00 PST

Alterity

Power-knowledge. Everywhere, a nexus of power-knowledge. How does it effect you to know that you are but a node in a matrix of constitutive relations? It tires me. And it is so tiresome to write a...
Posted by Michel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST