We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.