Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social relations and values in which there is an attempt to render them voiceless and invisible.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold on American society (and in other parts of the world) along with the savage social costs they have enacted, the forms of social, political, and economic violence that young people are protesting against, as well as the violence waged in response to their protests, will become impossible to recognize and act on.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.