“Historical amnesia and incuriousness about the violence of the past is the luxury of the oppressor. The colonized subject lives the historical violence of their expropriation viscerally, corporeally, all the way to psychosis, mental disorder, and phenomena.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.comTagged: Nightmare of History, Violence, Colonization, History as the Structure of the Present
“Reality is structured by belief, by a faith in fantasy that we know to be a fantasy yet we believe nonetheless.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.comTagged: Reality, Faith, Don’t Let It All Through
“The human being is the utter strangeness of action between two nothings. The self is a potentiality for being whose sole basis, limit, and condition of possibility is a double nothing, a double impotentialization, which of course is to say that it is also its condition of impossibility, an existenti…”— Simon Critchley, amazon.comTagged: Nothing, Nihilism