December 1, 2016 - 11:08
" I think that it is easy for us to agree that, in modernism, people are not equipped with the mental and emotional repertoire to deal with such vast scale events... this call for action has none of the traits of their older revolutionary dreams."
"To be a subject is not to act autonomously in front of an
objective background, but to share agency with other subjects that have also lost their autonomy."
"The concatenation of causes and consequences—and that’s what the real material world is made up of—does not trigger any dramatic effect, because, precisely—and that’s the beauty of it... no suspense to expect, no sudden transformation, no metamorphosis, no ambiguity. Time flows from past to present."