To collect photographs is to collect the world.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.