1/ “One of the roles of philosophy is to play the fool, or idiot. [...] Every philosopher who has brought forth a new idiom – a new language, a new way of thinking – has necessarily been an idiot. Only the idiot has access to the wholly Other.”
2/ “In light of compulsive and coercive communication and conformism, idiotism represents a practice of freedom. By nature, the idiot is unallied, un-networked, and uninformed. The idiot inhabits the immemorial outside, which escapes communication and networking altogether...”
3/ “The idiot is a modern-day heretic. Etymologically, heresy means ‘choice’. Thus, the heretic is one who commands free choice: the courage to deviate from orthodoxy.” —Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (amzn.to/3xuYOto) 
4/ “As a heretic, the idiot represents a figure of resistance opposing the violence of consensus. The idiot preserves the magic of the outsider. Today, in light of increasingly coercive conformism, it is more urgent than ever to heighten heretical consciousness.”
5/ “Idiotism stands opposed to the neoliberal power of domination: total communication and total surveillance. The idiot does not ‘communicate’. Indeed, he communicates with the In-communicable. As such, the idiot veils himself in silence.
6/ Idiotism erects spaces for guarding silence, quiet, and solitude, where it is still possible to say what really deserves to be said.”
—Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (amzn.to/3xuYOto)
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—Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (amzn.to/3xuYOto)
#deleuze #foucault #philosophy
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