Philosophy Quotes

"The body is not a thing, but a doing."

"Objects don't have properties; they enact them."

"To describe something is to participate in its production."

"Material reality and social construction are not opposites."

"Ontology is politics by other means."

"The real and the constructed are not enemies but partners."

"Objects emerge through their use and their relationships."

"Multiplicity means there is no view from nowhere."

"To describe is to enact; description is never innocent."

"Objects are achievements, not givens."

"We live within multiple, overlapping realities."

"Bodies are not unified entities but contested sites."

"Multiplicity is not chaos but the texture of reality."

"We are interconnected and interdependent."

"We have never been modern because we have never separated nature from culture"

"Purification is the obsession of modernity, yet it produces hybrids everywhere"

"Modernity promised to separate the sacred from the profane, yet this division is impossible"

"We must abandon the search for foundations and embrace relationality instead"

"We cannot step outside networks to judge them; we are always already inside"

"The distinction between representation and reality collapses under scrutiny"

"To be modern is to deny the modern condition of universal mediation"

"The modern divide between subject and object has obscured our true condition"

"The work of purification continues to produce new impurities"

"Materiality matters; things are not passive reflections of human intentions"

"We cannot understand modernity from within modernity; we must step aside"

"Modernity's violence lies in its denial of the violence it performs"

"Nature and culture have never been separate; only our thinking has been confused"

"One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman."

"Identity is constructed, not inherent."

"The lesbian is not a woman."