benjamin adam

“The history of philosophy and philosophical criticism generally has assumed that Aristophanes's hiccups and sneezes were dry, polite affairs that could be reduced to their ordinal, satirical, historical, or literary import. But while the philosophers may have decided to avoid excess food and drink for the sake of philosophical reflection, the gustatory returns in the odorous afterglow of digestion's excessive effects on the bloated corpus.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects

“Man will only be abolished “like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea” if we disarticulate the modern human (Man) from its twin: racializing assemblages.”
― Alexander G. Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

“black studies illuminates the essential role that racializing assemblages play in the construction of modern selfhood, works toward the abolition of Man, and advocates the radical reconstruction and decolonization of what it means to be human. In doing so, black studies pursues a politics of global liberation beyond the genocidal shackles of Man.3”
― Alexander G. Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

“While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects