We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul VaneigemEach component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.
Raoul VaneigemSuffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
Raoul VaneigemThe organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
Raoul Vaneigem