Reality is not in people’s heads as much as it is created through the interaction of specific groups of people in specific times and places.

"A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will."

"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?"

Jessica Whyte’s essay explores how neoliberalism transformed the market from a tool of exchange into the dominant force shaping political and social life. Challenging the idea that markets are “natural,” she argues that modern societies increasingly subordinate democracy, freedom, and collective decision-making to competitive economic systems.

"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."