Avital Ronell
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.Collection: Running
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.Collection: Real
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.Collection: Thinker
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.Collection: Stupidity
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.Collection: Speech