Jessica Zu

“My kingdom for a more embodied body”
― Bruno Latour

“Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity.”
― Matthew Desmond, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters

“Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces”
― Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France

“The king that "never dies" here has been replaced by the king that always dies, and suffers death more cruelly than other mortals.”
― Ernst Kantorowicz