Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"Space is not a neutral container; it is actively produced and politically charged."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Power operates not only through repression but through production."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are responsible for the worlds we help to create."Grosz, Elizabeth
"The future is not given but made through our actions."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are responsible for imagining and creating our futures."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are always already implicated in networks of power and meaning."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Agency is not a possession but a responsiveness."Barad, Karen
"Responsibility cannot be delegated or deferred."Barad, Karen
"Posthumanism opens new possibilities for thinking about power and resistance."Braidotti, Rosi
"The body is political; it is a site of power struggles."Braidotti, Rosi
"We are shaped by structures we did not choose but can work to transform."Muñoz, José Esteban
"We inherit both oppression and resistance; we can choose which to activate."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Touch is political; it is where intimacy and violence meet."Puar, Jasbir
"Power operates not just through prohibition but through the production of desire."Puar, Jasbir
"There is a world of difference between understanding nature and commanding it."Charles Darwin
"Power operates most effectively when it appears invisible."Ahmed, Sara
"Power shared is power multiplied."Ahmed, Sara
"Power is productive, not merely repressive."Haraway, Donna
"Power operates through the production of knowledge."Grosz, Elizabeth
"The body is the site of both subjection and resistance."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We make the world through our bodily practices."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Biopower is not only about what crushes life, but also about what sustains it."Braidotti, Rosi
"We are always already implicated in systems of power and meaning."Braidotti, Rosi
"I came, I saw, I conquered"Law, John
"Power operates not only through coercion but through care."Mol, Annemarie
"Power is not external but constitutive of subjects."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Power is not something you have; it is something you do."Haraway, Donna
"Power that does not account for its effects on others is merely violence."Ahmed, Sara
"Power is most dangerous when those who hold it believe they do not."Ahmed, Sara
"Power is not only repressive; it is also productive and can generate new possibilities."Braidotti, Rosi