"The admiration that effortlessness invokes comes from a skill that lies beyond skill, which is achieved through mental emptiness."

"If academics want to increase uptake and funding, it seems plausible to suggest they must do something that is publicly interesting."

"Arguably, the function of the modern concept of race was to rationalize forms of oppression and subjugation like chattel slavery."

"The ethos of Silicon Valley is often described as ‘libertarian’, but it isn’t. It is deeply authoritarian."

"What does it mean to think with others even if, or particularly when, our living conditions may not be conducive to thought?"

"To live in hopeless times is not only subjectively to feel hopeless. It is for that feeling in a real way to reflect the way things are."

"Philosophy, including and perhaps especially, public philosophy, is often best done in dialogue, as Socrates well knew."

"Epistemic vices are fundamentally failures of our inner life, failures to relate or respond to epistemic values and ideals."

"The Platonic/Cartesian formulation captures an abiding element of human experience; the body can be a prison from which we long to be free"

"What I will seek, then, is to uncover something about the underlying mentality that exemplifies the ideal of an unalienated life."

"There is a deep-rooted folk concept of the human organism, which assumes that our bodies are pure and uncontaminated by outside matter."

"Before anything can be, there must be made nothing; prior to this contraction, nothing is not – where, after all, would it be?"

"We must ask what it means to do philosophy when we expect that the next generation will be worse off, in many ways, than our generation."

"If one needs a dwelling place to start thinking, an artwork can serve as a kind of shelter where thinking can take place. "

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."

"Emotions are based rather on affective concerns, concerns over what really matters to the subjects­­ – what we “give a damn” about."

"Selfhood is not only what allows us to mark our difference to others, it is also what permits us to share a perspective with them."

"The phenomenon of 'continental' philosophy or even 'French theory' is a thoroughly Anglophone one."

"While it may seem the thing we’re most fluent in, we’re actually strangers to mind, insofar as it is an unfinished and ongoing category."

"We can understand Mexican ontology as a means to push back against inherited and imposed ontological schemas of all sorts."