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Jacques Lacan

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Jacques Lacan, 1972

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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (2005)

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- Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten, can they? - No mam.

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (1993)

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I start with the recognition that we are at war, and that war is not simply a hot debate between the capitalist camp and the socialist camp over which economic/political/social arrangement will have hegemony in the world. It’s not just the battle over turf and who has the right to utilize resources for whomsoever’s benefit. The war is also being fought over the truth: what is the truth about human nature, about the human potential? My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family, and the human family is to try to tell the truth. That ain’t easy. There are so few truth-speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of “Western civilization” has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that it releases the Spirit, and that it is a joyous thing.

Thabiti Lewis, Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

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One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Martin Luther King Jr. (from his August 16th, 1967 speech)

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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977, Ch.4)

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The predator and the preyed upon exist not alone, but as part as a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account. (...) The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and practices of applied entomology for the most part date from that Stone Age of science. It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against insects it has also turned them against the earth.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

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In nature, nothing exists alone.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

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I felt what we always feel when someone dies–the sad awareness, now futile, of how little it would have cost us to have been more loving. One forgets that one is a dead man conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges, There Are More Things (1975, 437)

#words #quotes #jorge luis borges #on everything visceral

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Whether in recent attempts to rethink the Hegelian legacy, to renovate the Marxist and communist tradition, or to mobilize against the current political and economic crises racking the globe, the question of dialectics—the dynamic movement of conflictive oppositions—is once again firmly on the table. In this process, the dialectical questions par excellence—what to preserve and what to discard, how to move forward without reproducing the errors of the past—are re-posed with height- ened urgency. But in the context of struggles that are powerfully global, at the intersection of the inverse but complicit dynamics of outsourcing and exodus-migration, white supremacist containment and suburban re- bellion, we cannot escape the historically fraught relationship between dialectics and decolonization, one long characterized by mutual suspicion.

George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics (2017, 2)

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But, truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge that permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. Thus we have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

Michel Foucault. The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language (1972, 235)

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''For the moment, all that we can do is to dig in our heels, and prevent silliness from sliding into insanity.''

E.M. Forster, Two Cheers For Democracy (1939, 14)

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I have queer disabled and Mad questions. Especially as I look at the “madness” of the Stonewall trans women of color, butches, femmes, and nonbinary people who threw bricks, fought with their high heels, and turned around and fought the fuck back—at both that radical legacy and the ways generations of queers invested in respectability politics as the best way to survive attempts to whitewash and tone down that legacy. But a riot is never “sane,” measured, “reasonable.” I’ve been in riots and they feel Mad to me. They feel like they come from a powerful place of Madness. They are a moment where people stop and refuse to go along with ordinary, everyday reality. Where the Mad feelings and truths we often suppress fight back.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Disability Justice/Stonewall's Legacy, or: Love Mad Trans Black Women When They Are Alive and Dead, Let Their Revolutions Teach Your Resistance All the Time (2019, 59-60)

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“Oh yeah Stonewall! I did start that! And then well... I got lost in the music.” Lost in the music (...) who is crazy enough to create and wear a flower crown every day when she has no house to throw the first brick in a cops face defy Reason demand the unreasonable start every moment of queer liberation that has allowed my life?

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Disability Justice/Stonewall's Legacy, or: Love Mad Trans Black Women When They Are Alive and Dead, Let Their Revolutions Teach Your Resistance All the Time (2019, 55)

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I want you to know (I know you know) your death was met by cripple howls of grief all over the world. you were loved more than most of us. you still are.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, When your friend dies like Jesus on her 33rd birthday (2022, 643)

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I stood at the border and claimed it as central. I claimed it as central and let the rest of the world move over to where I was.

Toni Morrison in an interview after winning the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993.

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