The ‘Germany’ where Fascisms are born is not a territory or a
population but a text and an attitude to texts which became
established long before Hitler.
[…]
Equivalence of a text with a territory—true, for the last five
hundred years, and with some exceptions. But it is in the
armed institution of the text that we have to see the active
side of this equivalence: the text lays down the law for the
territory.
[…]:
Texts do not simply serve the exercise of power, they are that
very exercise, they subject people. Even more than the chains
of slavery, they are part of that slavery. Policemen inside the
heads of those who subjected them, the great texts of power
in Europe are not in the service of the strategies of domination,
they are these strategies themselves.
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