“Imbued with the secret knowledge of the dream realm, the second self must kill, rewrite, redream and repose the first self.“
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“We are made breathless by the house, or rather, by the copy writer’s ekphrasis of the house.”
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“Undoubtedly, objectivity is the most fundamental doctrine of journalism. It is the first rule that is taught. The second is that objectivity is hardly ever achievable.”
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“I read this glorious scene a few times over because it was that sexy. Just once in my life I want to look so good that a babe eats gravel to meet me.“
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“Yes, we too can become antagonists in our desires, ravenous for love, revenge and liberation.”
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“I want to tease out this very case of the stranger as absence; as someone not even addressed and who needs to struggle into existence, afloat in a vast sea of hostile reception and unfamiliar rhetoric.”
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“Art is shit, or at least good art stinks.”
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“A reviewer is not a doctor, nor am I a patient.”
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“Video platforms do not merely distribute content; they organise the rhythms of attention, sculpting the affective and cognitive terrain of entire populations in a fashion that traditional political propaganda simply could not.”
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“… it is an exciting time, to be seeing the cracks form in literary containers that have sought to contain First Nations writing for centuries.”
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“By failing to address the disjunctures within rave cultures located in settler-colonial contexts, Wark obscures the exclusionary practices that persist in these spaces, particularly those shaped by racialisation.”
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"What does it mean to be free?"
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“Ouyang Yu is full of shit."
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"For diasporic poets, to write is to trouble the past."
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"At precisely the time that Barthes was relishing Flaubert’s interminable corrections as a turning to zero where ‘writing is the book’s goal, not publication’, and ‘ellipsis now acquires the vertigo of expansion’, Said rejected the infinitude of the signifier-in-play by insisting on an entry point to language."
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"The archive is infinite. One could get lost in an unfolding of the past, in the shadows and darkness, in the dust that rises and falls, becomes mud."
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“Yes, life is always beginning and its living is well underway.”
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“Whether a mere mortal or scorned prince, writing out of a burning desire to rebuke all those who have wronged you and to have the last, conclusive word is a Sisyphean task.”
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“Our empathy, mundane joys, eruptive eros, and constructed language may dismantle oppressive modern/colonial systems. These are not survival tactics. Carlo asks where the dignity in pure survival tactics is; I respond, there is none.”
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“Here arises the greatest weapon against the regime: the imagination as something it cannot control, the product of which is this very book expressing it.”
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