Avital Ronell Quotes
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Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
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Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
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To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
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