History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

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

[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that economics should govern all of social life, to such a degree that it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge it.

The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.