“There is a disjunction between speaking and seeing, between the visible and the articulable: ‘what we see never lies in what we…

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“There is a disjunction between speaking and seeing, between the visible and the articulable: ‘what we see never lies in what we say’, and vice versa. The conjunction is impossible for two reasons: the statement has its own correlative object and is not a proposition designating a state of things or a visible object, as logic would have it; but neither is the visible a mute meaning, a signified of power to be realized in language, as phenomenology would have it.”

— Gilles DeLeuze, Foucault, New York: Continuum, p 55