The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

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

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.