Details of work situations provide the same type of narrative, giving us both information and that which enables us to access

the city shows itself to be elusive, despite an administration that seeks its submission and docility through strict surveillance.

their words reveal things that ordinarily went unspoken.

It was not created to surprise, titillate, or inform, but to better serve the police's constant need for surveillance and punishment.

The archive is an excess of meaning, where the reader experiences beauty, amazement, and a certain affective tremor.

But it's dangerous because this mirroring of the self stunts the imagination, inhibits the mind and stifles curiosity by confining reflection to narrow and suffocating paths.

It is not easy to rid yourself of an excessive ease in finding meaning in the archives. To be able to truly understand a document, one must first put aside what one has learned about it and stop believing that it could be deciphered in the very first reading.

one. To make women visible, when history has omitted them, implies a corollary task: to work on the relationship between the sexes, and to make this relationship the subject of historical study.

No matter how much the real seems to be there, visible and tangible, it reveals nothing more than its physical presence, and it is naive to believe that this is its essence.