Dennis

“The question today, then, is whether the world's populations are not close to having done with soft sciences and technologies, which still take into account the preservation of the planet and its inhabitants; whether they are not now in danger of being swept away by the terrorist excesses of a Laputian ratio, a universal philanoia attacking a human species which has become 'undesirable' in its entirety, the scandal of an Earth which is, so far as we know, the only biosphere in the solar system.”
― Paul Virilio, Ground Zero

“Linguïsten houden er congressen over, filosofen en logici zitten ermee verveeld: het probleem van de zelfreferentie. De kwestie is: kan een taal ooit over iets anders gaan dan over zichzelf? Kan God naar zichzelf verwijzen? Kan ik dat? Een wijsvinger kan niet wijzen naar zichzelf, een oog kan zichzelf niet zien. En toch kijken honden en dwazen inderdaad naar de vinger die wijst, en niet naar de richting waarin gewezen wordt.”
― Patricia De Martelaere, Het onverwachte antwoord

“Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.”
― Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II