“I would like to provide you with an intervention in two times. The first time would be that of a reflection that is, in order to be personal, no less situated on the terrain of collective theory — the sharing of the intelligible, I would call it — inasmuch as it would be a question of being conceptually up to the challenge of what presents itself here and now as a concept to be thought, i.e., that of ‘transmission’. The second time would rather be that of speech in which would be articulated, even summarily, my situation — singular perhaps, but surely not inane — as a writer, poet, and practitioner of language vis-à-vis the public, the public thing, or, what is more, politics as well.”