"We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of political 'double bind'[...]" (Foucault 1982: 785)

We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of political "double bind", which is the simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures.
The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state and from state's institutions but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.

Excerpt from "The Subject and Power" by Michel Foucault, published in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 777-795, The University of Chicago Press

"Think what would make the world worse off: to find itself without bankers or without poets", (Gramsci 2007 [1975]: 235, quoting Manzoni)

"Drought makes the workers dream", (Patton 1992)

"Stockholm ligger öde och världen håller andan", (Berg 2002)

"A man must judge his labours by the obstacles he has overcome and the hardships he has endured", (Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 1940: 9)

"[F]riends [...] must be mutually recognized as bearing goodwill and wishing well to each other", (Aristotle)

"[...] that which is good without qualification is also without qualification pleasant, and these are the most lovable qualities [...] such friendship requires time and familiarity; as the proverb says, men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'; nor can they admit each other to friendship or be friends till each has been found lovable and been trusted by each. Those who quickly show the marks of friendship to each other wish to be friends, but are not friends unless they both are lovable and know the fact; for a wish for friendship may arise quickly, but friendship does not."



From "Nichomachean ethics", Book VIII, Chapter 2, p. 1060 in The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon (Random House, New York, 1941).

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"You are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being", (Agrado in "All About My Mother" by Pedro Almodovar 1999)

"Spaces, experiences and concepts in-between cannot be finally defined since they escape identity", (Sand 2008:302)

"Spaces, experiences and concepts in-between cannot be finally defined since they escape identity and must be understood as a rhythmic process of becoming."

From Konsten att gunga - experiment som aktiverar mellanrum (Space in Motion - the Art of Activating Space In-Between), 2008, Axl Books

"This is a good time to reflect [...]", (Rami G. Khouri 2009-2010)

"This is a good time to reflect on the causes of our deterioration, so that we and our leaders do not collectively act like buffoons and simply perpetuate the mistakes that have defined our inauspicious start of this third millennium"

From article "A bad decade" written by Rami G. Khouri and published on a final day of third millenniums very first decade in International Herald Tribune (thursday-friday, december 31 - january 1, 2009-2010)

"The point is to make a difference in the world, to cast our lot for some ways of life and not others", (Haraway 1997: 36)

"The point is to make a difference in the world, to cast our lot for some ways of life and not others. To do that, one must be in the action, be finite and dirty, not transcendent and clean"

From Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience, 1997

"Framing provides a means of 'constructing a world' [...]", (Bruner 2000 [1990]: 56)

"Framing provides a means of 'constructing a world', of characterizing its flow, of segmenting events within that world, and so on. If we were not able to do such framing, we would be lost in a murk of chaotic experience and probably would not have survived as a species in any case",

From Acts of Meaning by Jerome Bruner, (Bruner 2000 [1990]: 56)

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think ...", (Lacan 1977: 166)

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think... I am not wherever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think", (Lacan 1977: 166)

"we do not know how we live", (Lefebvre 2008 [1947]: 195)

"'Consciousness of life' - can those words be right? Are we conscious of our own lives? The words which spring to our lips, the ideas and images at our disposal, are they kind to allow us a true consciousness of our lives? ... No! Our lives are still unrealized, and our consciousness is false. It is not only our consciousness which is false: it is only false because our lives are still alienated. False representations bring with them a false consciousness of what an unrealized life is; in other words they do not bring an awareness of the non-realization (of the degree of non-realization) of human life: they present it as either realized (which leads to vulgar or moral satisfaction) or unrealizable (which leads to anguish or the desire for a different life).
More precisely, nowadays, we do not know how we live. And at the end of our lives, we scarcely know how we have lived them. And how bitter this unhappy consciousness is..."

"Your heart celebrates [...] by relating to what matters", (Reeves 2003: 158)

"Novi svijet [...] postao je tek eskapistichki san, a ne ozbiljna alternativa postojechem poretku", (Mumford 1986 [1964]: 25)

"[...] each situation demands the particular pattern of thought appropriate to it", (E.E. Evans-Pritchard 1976: 162)

"[...] we have to bear in mind, that children die in the third world because of lies [...]", (Hagman 2009)

"If a white man can use a coloured man's heart after death, can he sit on the same park bench with him when both are living?" (Leach E. 1967)

"I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me" (Vedder 1995)

"Seeing is not all that there is to believing: belief determines the significance of what is seen", (Miller J. in "The Heart" 2007: 48,49)