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Words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open upon being, because they more closely convey the life of the whole and make our habitual evidences vibrate until they disjoin." In this way, writers— or painters, for that matter-use what Merleau-Ponty calls "the indirect voice" to evoke the "brute and wild being" of the world.

“I suggest we confront our obligations as scholars and admit that many of our long-standing methods and denotative conventions of representation are no longer in sync with the state of contemporary social, political, environmental, and economic dysfunction.”

Just another white guy proud of his research.

“The tragedy of the ban on hazardous waste is that it stopped with hazardous waste.”

NecroPolitics is like politics for the dead. Not because it is combing the words Necro and Politics but because it literally treats its subjects as if they are dead. Like the poor inhabitants in Vita, a zone of social abandonment in Brazil, where disabled people are dumped by shameless relatives, abandoned to die.

“Microsoft is one of the most racist corporations on the planet.”

Hope is staring like a stranger
From the corner in the rain
In this picture of the future
We’re just burning in the frame