All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.