Avital Ronell Quotes

• 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

  Running, Home, Winning

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

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• To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

  Avital Ronell

  Real, Clear, Not Perfect

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• Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

  Avital Ronell

  Thinker, Delicate, Probing

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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

  Stupidity, Moral, Pathology

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

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• Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

  Avital Ronell

  Speech, Speak

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

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