Elisabeth Jessen

“The Machinery are a bunch of fuckwits who believe that the human body is best conceptualised as a machine, and that if behaviour is stripped down to only what is functional, a higher form of humanity will emerge. This means actions that lead to the fulfilment of their basic needs only. Disease is a malfunction. You can see where this goes. They’re boring as hell, they only speak to convey information and they are more inflexible than actual machines. They are said to be good spouses and accountants. The one beside me has a distinct self-image, fully identified as a machine. He repeats to himself mentally, ‘You are a machine, you are a machine.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“It is a certainty, not just a conviction, the way believing in God is a conviction, but believing in gravity is a certainty.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“This is a psychofield, a thoughtspace, essentially unstable. While most people conceptualise thinking as this straightforward linear thing, I see ideas spreading out into alternatives before one is selected. In this place every notion can potentially become reality.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater