Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Avital Ronell Quotes

Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues

Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

Running, Home, Winning

Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Real, Clear, Not Perfect

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

Thinker, Delicate, Probing

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Speech, Speak

Avital Ronell (1989). “The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech”, U of Nebraska Press

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

Stupidity, Moral, Pathology

Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

You May Also Like: