Introduction to Civil War Quotes

“Empire does not confront us like a subject, facing us, but like an environment that is hostile to us.”
― Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War

“The body that says “I,” in truth says “we.”
― Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War

“Is it necessary to read Leviathan to know that “because
the major part hath by consenting voices declared a sovereign,
he that dissented must now consent with the rest, that is, be
contented to avow all the actions he shall do, or else justly be
destroyed by the rest. [...] And whether he be of the congregation
or not, and whether his consent be asked or not, he must either
submit to their decrees or be left in the condition of war he
was in before, wherein he might without injustice be destroyed
by any man whatsoever.”
― Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War

“The deconstructionist, incapable of having an effect on even the smallest detail of his world, being literally almost no longer in the world and having made absence his permanent mode of being, tries to embrace his Bloomhood with bravado. He shuts himself up in that narrow, closed circle of realities that·still affect him at all --books, texts, films, and music-- because these things are as insubstantial as he is. He can no longer see anything in what he reads that might relate to life, and instead sees what he lives as a tissue of references to what he has already read. Presence and the world as a whole, insofar as Empire allows, are for him purely hypothetical. Reality and experience are for him nothing more than dubious appeals to authority.”
― Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War