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“Women and gender nonconforming people are not only targets of interpersonal violence but also of state violence. Therefore, discussions of interpersonal violence without a critique of state power and capitalism are at best incomplete and at worst reifications of oppressive structures that are constitutive of interpersonal violence.”

"wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but by the secret circulation of speculative capital, so war is not measured by being waged but by its speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic, and informational space, the same space in which capital moves"

"The public ultimately consents to be frightened, and to be gently terrorized by the bacteriological scenarios, on the basis of a kind of affective patriotism, even when it preserves a fairly profound indifference to the war."