"For millennia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question. (pp. 143)"
"And yet, to conceive the category of the sexual in terms of the law, death, blood, and sovereignty, -- whatever the references to Sade and Bataille, and however one might gauge their "subversive" influence -- is in the last analysis a historical "retro-version." We must conceptualize the deployment "
"Sexuality is a very real historical formation; it is what gave rise to the notion of sex, as a speculative element necessary to its operation. We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power."