"I walked in silence between the old walls, trying to guess at the stories they would never dare tell." Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot

"Make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don't sow, grow offshoots!...Be quick even when standing still!...Don't have just ideas, just have an idea (Godard). Have short-term ideas. Make maps, not photos or drawings...Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions." -Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

"If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and of excrement. Booksellers would consider it quite a novelty; critics would murmur, yes, but is it art; and I could trust a majority of you to use it as you would a parlor game."—James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

“It appears that the very process of development, even as it transforms a wasteland into a thriving physical and social space, recreates the wasteland inside the developer himself. This is how the tragedy of development works.” –Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

“The ideal for a book would be to lay everything out on a plane of exteriority of this kind, on a single page, the same sheet: lived events, historical determinations, concepts, individuals, groups, social formations.”-Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

“There is no difference between what a book talks about and how it is made."-Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

“The concept of psychological trauma has always been presented as emancipatory. We need not disagree to see the effects of power that it produces. Those children and families in a flood-ravaged region of Nicaragua will, for the first time, live in a world in which they experience themselves not just as ravaged by floods, but as having suffered trauma.”-Ian Hacking, Historical Ontology

"We too are afraid that the sky is falling."-Buno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern

“As moods vary, so does attention to detail.” -Hugh Raffles, In Amazonia

“Up from your beds, my servants! Every man!
Let happy eyes behold my daring plan.
Take up your tools, stir shovel now and spade!
What has been staked must at once be made.”—
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust