Politics Quotes

"The nation-state is a recent invention, and it can be otherwise."

"The figure of the terrorist is always racialized and always gendered."

"We live in an era of managed multiculturalism that allows difference while maintaining hierarchies."

"Citizenship is not a status but a practice; it is something we do."

"The figure of the homonational subject shows how LGBTQ+ inclusion can coexist with imperialist violence."

"The nation-state produces certain subjects as killable and others as grievable."

"We live in an age of what I call 'homonational inclusion' that masks deeper hierarchies."

"Nationhood is performed; it is not a deep truth but a repeated enactment."

"The figure of the immigrant contains the anxieties and desires of the nation itself."

"The nation-state is constituted through exclusions and violences that are disavowed."

"The personal is political, and the political is intimate."

"Affect is political."

"Politics is the art of making the impossible seem necessary."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"The politics of difference is essential to democracy."

"The political is not separate from the personal or the intimate."

"The present is a site of political struggle and intervention."

"I believe in the generative power of affirmative politics."

"Nomadism is a political stance of creative resistance."

"We need affirmative rather than reactive politics."

"Nomadic thought is a form of creative political engagement."

"Affirmative politics is about creating alternative possibilities."

"Critical consciousness is an affirmative force for social change."

"The personal is always already theoretical; our lives are sites of political struggle."

"The body is a site of political struggle and creative possibility."

"The nation-state is not a natural unit but a violent imposition."

"The nation depends on the suppression of desire and affect."

"The nation-state manufactures consent through narratives of inevitability."

"The nation-state is sustained through the violence of forgetting."

"The nation depends on our complicity in its fictions."