Maria

“The recognition that modern societies are no longer monolithic, that the
imaginary social space has mushroomed into a multitude of identities has
propelled us into a realization that we are in an era where interculturality,
transculturalism and the eventual prospect of identifying a cosmopolitan
citizenship can become a reality. However we still remain circumscribed by
our Little Italies, our China Towns etc., which beyond the pleasures of
experiencing culinary delights, nevertheless create a self illusion that we
have attained a level of cultural awareness of the other.”
― Donald Cuccioletta

“(...) Solo nos resultaría posible percibir, escuchar y adivinar al otro, abriendo nuestros sentidos y haciendo pensar a nuestro corazón sobre la perturbación que en nosotros produce su posible presencia. Es decir, reflexionando sobre la ilusión de normalidad que a nosotros nos impide conocernos y reflexionando sobre el hecho de que si miramos afuera, donde el otro no está es porque está en mí (...)”
― Nuria Perez de Lara

“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”
― Regis Debray, Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms

“Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.”
― Regis Debray, Transmitting Culture