Who am I?

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?”

Michel Foucault (1982) Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)

Recollecting?

“Imagine an infant removed immediately from its place of birth and set down in a different environment. Then compare the various “identities” the child might acquire in its new context, the battles it would now have to fight and those it would be spared. Needless to say, the child would have no recollection of his original religion, or of his country or language. And might he not one day find himself fighting to the death against those who ought to have been his nearest and dearest?”

A. Maalouf (2001: 24-25) In the name of identity: violence and the need to belong