This Is Not A Pipe

"I managed to refuse to have a mobile phone... I can sit there in a train carriage, look out the window, and, of course there's some kind of mediation going on there, but it's free from the kind of mediation which seems to consume most of us most of the time."

"Until we're able to speak about this racism as something that's coming out of 'us' -- and here I'm speaking particularly as a white person -- out of our culture more broadly, then we don't have a chance of really trying to handle what this persistent racism is."

"It’s hard to deny stories. And I think that’s why stories are so important. And that’s why qualitative research is so important."

"It doesn't seem to me to require any obscurity to challenge people and to put them in new positions."

"My anxiety about the future of critical theory is partly that if it doesn't figure out a way to engage more with other kinds of critical traditions--postcolonial theory is one example, but also feminist theory and queer theory and critical philosophy of race--then I worry about the extent to which this project has a robust future."

"Of the Trump supporters and Clinton supporters, there were practically no television shows in each group's mutual top 25... There's almost no overlap, not just in terms of political messaging, but also in cultural messaging."

"Something there feels important to me about...doing what we can from where we are, building our capacity to do more, and refusing to be convinced that it's hopeless for us to do anything if we can't solve everything

"We feel we’re special. We say everyone else is being duped. Everyone else is being deceived but I understand what’s going on...and it’s funny because every student has that same response."

"The definitions of youth over the last fifteen or twenty years are now frantically proliferating in order to try to keep up with the contradictions and antagonisms of what’s actually happening with young people, which is almost inarticulable now."

"I think lots of our celebrities are ‘writerly’ texts. When we read them we rewrite them as well... Bowie died in January of last year but he’s alive because I’m listening to him and rewriting him, recreating him, and in many ways I’m resurrecting him as well every time I put that record on."