The delinquent is not outside the law; he is, from the very outset, in the law, at the very heart of the law... the carceral system permitted the emergence of a new form of “law:” a mixture of legality and nature, prescription and constitution, the norm.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
I went into a little cafe where I saw some colored musicians sitting, having their coffee. I spoke to them, and said: “I’ve just come to Paris, and I’m looking for a cheap place to stay and a job.”
They scowled at me. Finally one of them said:
“Well, what instrument do you play?”
“You must be crazy, boy,” one of the men said. “There ain’t no ‘any kind of job’ here. There’re plenty of French people for ordinary work.”
Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Paris, France
Summer 2019