Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.