Avital Ronell quotes

“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”
-- Avital Ronell

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“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.”
-- Avital Ronell

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

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

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

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“Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.”
-- Avital Ronell

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“Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.”
-- Avital Ronell

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

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“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

“Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.”

“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.”

“It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.”

“The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.”

“I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.”

“When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.”

“I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.”

“This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”