"The images and the ideals about how our body should be are strongly dependent on existing inequalities and discriminatory practices."

"We have been rightly suspicious about the possibility of technological enslavement and how we may end up authors of our own extinction."

"We can only ever become, at best, more perfect failures: failures who finally understand the failures they are."

"If objectivity is little more than a shield to protect the interests of the powerful, then what does this mean for the pursuit of truth?"

"What is a market if markets can over-ride the democratic political process and determine the priorities to which nations must conform?"

"Unfreedom is not just a matter of states of the world, but how the world affects and shapes how we think, feel, and act."

"I don’t think we owe the future anything, strictly speaking, and this is why the future can be so exciting."

"We have lots to question anew around exoanthropology, especially on the nature of persons and normative structures involved in personhood."

"I confess to persistent envy while reading The Life Inside about the urgency that philosophical questions have in West’s classrooms. "

"In possession of a historical consciousness that has never before been so excruciatingly heightened, we are bowed beneath its weight."

"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."

"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."