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“The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.”
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“If nature is unjust, change nature!”
― Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
― Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
“Distance is the soul of the beautiful.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
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“These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption.”
― Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
― Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
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