I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies. The reproduction of a discipline can be the reproduction of these techniques of selection, ways of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part.
〇 Sara Ahmed: Making Feminist Points

No to spectacle
No to virtuosity
No to magic make believe
No to glamour
No to transcendency of the star image
No to the heroic
No to the anti-heroic
No to trash imagery
No to style
No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer
No to moving or being moved.

〇 Yvonne Rainer: The power of NO, Feelings are Facts

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
〇 Audre Lorde

I suppose I never think about death as an other side. Life is what’s; life is what we can’t get back to, because death is actually what we’re experiencing right now. Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the movement is really life.
〇 bell hooks

Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater engagement in the effort to transform concrete, objective reality. Conversely, sectarianism, because it is mythicizing and irrational, turns reality into a false (and therefore unchangeable) "reality."
〇 Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed