Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Quotes

“When we say ‘housing for all’ and the government responds with ‘the homeless are
being temporarily housed in hotels to avoid the spread of the virus’, they are building a linguistic structure that defines the realm of the possible, that implicitly tells us to want less, to expect that total reconfiguration is out of the question. Like a poorly designed building, linguistic structures affect how we think, breathe, move and act. The mould sticks to our skin. We are familiar with a particular kind of linguistic structure: the preservation of a system of organisation that places capital before all else. This system ties our hands and feet together.”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing.”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“When we say ‘housing for all’ and the government responds with ‘the homeless are being temporarily housed in hotels to avoid the spread of the virus’, they are building a linguistic structure that defines the realm of the possible, that implicitly tells us to want less, to expect that total reconfiguration is out of the question. Like a poorly designed building, linguistic structures affect how we think, breathe, move and act. The mould sticks to our skin. We are familiar with a particular kind of linguistic structure: the preservation of a system of organisation that places capital before all else. This system ties our hands and feet together.”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve
THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions means finding theory in the most meagre places. The most squalid atmosphere.”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine exists in isolation—towards that ‘other’ who we imagine is separate from us.”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise