“Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to the pleasure of purity, minding your own business, doing what you can to forget to wreak vengeance, defending… — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
“A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to… — Jane Bennett Copy Share
“Why should one bother to criticize what is inevitable or challenge what is omnipotent?” — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
“Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to the pleasure… — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
“The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...” — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
