Intimacies Quotes

“It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it was, in any case, always an illusion to think we possessed.”
― Leo Bersani, Intimacies

“Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.”
― Leo Bersani, Intimacies

“power aims to produce subjects defined (and, correlatively, made visible and controlled) by particular desires.”
― Leo Bersani, Intimacies