The Body of This Death Quotes

“This revelation is aletheic: violence is truth, the truth of being. Violence is the aletheic revelation of the ontologically inhospitable world, intolerable because inescapable. Violence discloses the essential cruelty of being, and it is the threat, or image, or possibility, rather than the realization of that truth that is sexy. And this threat is imagined or figured in a metonymic
congreies of disparate signifiers: gestures, scars, movements, tattoos, charcoal rubbings, scrapes and bruises, for example; in the very fragmentation of signification.”
― William Haver, The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS