I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market economy with a market society and claims that capitalism is democracy, you've not only got a massive lie being imposed on the people, but you've got the foundation for a form of authoritarianism and a much more intensive form of class warfare.