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“To me, the best music works at multiple levels in parallel: intellectual, sensual and spiritual. (Carla Scaletti)”
― Tara Rodgers, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound

“Foucault can mock sexual reformers as much as he likes for their belief that the absence of sexual restrictions will automatically mark the beginning of an era of freedom. However, unfortunately, the opposite statement is also true. Sexual freedom is dangerous and rebellious. It is not by chance that authoritarian regimes then and now lash out at homosexuality and abortion, trying to enclose each gender in a strictly defined framework and force them to perform reproductive duties, and it is not by chance that such prohibitions precede more inhumane acts — purges and genocide.”
― Olivia Laing, Everybody: A Book About Freedom

“The cause of eco-catastrophe is an imper- sonal structure which, even though it is capable of producing all manner of effects, is precisely not a subject capable of exercising responsibility.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“The problem with psychotherapy was that the patient was treated as if their pain were happening in a vacuum, without the participation of the society in which they exist or the politics that defines their life.”
― Olivia Laing, Everybody: A Book About Freedom