ABSTRACT
Writing does not come to power. It is there beforehand, it partakes of and is made of it… Hence, struggles for powers set various writings up against one another. Let us not shrug our shoulders too hastily, pretending to believe that war would thus be confined within the field of literati, in the library or in the bookshop .. . But it is true that the political question of literati, of intellectuals in the ideological apparatus, of the places and stockages of writing, of caste-phenomena, of “priests” and the hoarding of codes, of archival matters – that all this should concern us.
