“Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.”
― The Unbound
― The Unbound
“Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the new. Desire is one with the auto-conducting movement of becoming.”
― The Nonhuman Turn
― The Nonhuman Turn
“Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“I believe the human estate is both imbricated with and periodically overmatched by a cosmos composed of multiple, interacting force fields moving at different speeds. We are today at least as closely implicated in several nonhuman force fields as the city of Lisbon found itself to be with that earthquake, tsunami, and fire. In a world more scientifically and technically advanced, we are not that much better equipped culturally, philosophically, politically, or spiritually to address these entanglements.”
― The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism
― The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism
“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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