Mol, Annemarie

Philosopher-Sociologist Dutch Born 1958 (age 68)

Developed ontological politics and multiplicity theory.

380 quotes

"Care is an art form that resists complete systematization."
Art
"The world is not pre-given but constantly enacted."
Life
"Attending is the first act of care."
Kindness
"Multiplicity means there is no view from nowhere."
Philosophy
"Bodies matter, literally and figuratively."
Science
"To normalize is to make invisible, and thus to deny multiplicity."
Truth
"Fragmentation within the self is not pathological but normal."
Wisdom
"Reality is performed into existence through practices."
Creativity
"The margins are not peripheral but constitutive."
Justice
"To be responsible is to respond to what we encounter."
Courage
"Health is not the absence of disease but the presence of multiple possibilities."
Health
"Singularization is an achievement that requires work."
Success
"We are all entangled in the production of reality."
Relationships
"To describe is to enact; description is never innocent."
Philosophy
"Difference is not a problem but the texture of existence."
"Care is a practice of responsiveness, not a state of being."
Kindness
"The excluded are not outside the norm but defined by it."
Politics
"Multiplicity in the body is a resource, not a deficit."
Strength
"Objects are achievements, not givens."
Philosophy
"To live is to enact reality through our practices."
Life
"Normativity is not natural but performed into existence."
Truth
"Responsibility is always local and particular."
"The body is a multiplicity that cannot be unified."
Science
"To attend to something is to make it real."
"Complexity cannot be reduced without loss."
Wisdom
"Care is the substance of good practice, not its decoration."
Kindness
"We live within multiple, overlapping realities."
Philosophy
"Fragmentation is sometimes more honest than coherence."
Truth
"The real is not discovered but enacted through practice."
Science
"Difference is constitutive, not deficient."