Quote of the Day

[alice wellintown]

Pig Suit.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "A point of agreement among contemporary political thinkers of the
> most diverse approaches ... is that the means by which society
> controls its subjects are ever more difficult to perceive, and that
> the possibilities for change ever more difficult to identify.   To
> follow a vocation at once philosophical and political is ... to act
> and think on the basis of something we all know: that things in our
> world not only can but should be different."
>
> --Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009)
>
> http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16082
>
> Cf., e.g., ...
>
> "... how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for
> diversity?" (Lot 49)
>
> "Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the
> singular point she jumped the wrong way from?" (GR)
>
> "Does Britannia, when it sleeps, dream? Is America her dream? [...]
> serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive  Hopes, for all that may
> yet be true ..." (M&D)
>