The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.