Simon Reynolds

“Liberation—not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“No one wants to die,” said Becka. “But some people don’t want to live in any of the ways that are allowed.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized in turn by Christianity, by philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen as futility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes “care”; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way; a passion for seizing what is happening now and what is disappearing; a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. I dream of a new age of curiosity.”
― Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984

“What difference does it make that pedestrian touch carries the weight of the body rather than the weight of the object?”
― Tim Ingold