Critical theory Quotes

"Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts …. We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box."

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule"

"The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority"

"The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure."

"Spivak rightly argues that the absence of the West would make its retooling impossible"