Brooks Brown

“Through the appropriation of public spaces and resources into the logic of the marketplace, individuals are dispossessed of many collective forms of mutual support or sharing. A simple and pervasive cooperative practice like hitchhiking had to be inverted into a risk-filled act with fearful, even lethal consequences. Now it has reached the point of laws being enacted in parts of the United States that criminalize giving food to the homeless or to undocumented immigrants.”
― Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over as work time, consumption time, or marketing time.”
― Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“As Luce Iri- garay explains, "What makes me one, and perhaps even unique, is the fact that you are and I am not you.”
― Mari Ruti, A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living

“Sure, they say, we may not live in a condition of perfect Goodness. But we’re lucky that we don’t live in a condition of Evil. Our democracy is not perfect. But it’s better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. But it’s not criminal like Stalinism. We let millions of Africans die of AIDS, but we don’t make racist nationalist declarations like Milosevic. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don’t cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?