p. 73: Being suspicious of presumptive declarations of a new day and keeping the struggle alive is what animates the critical project to question the representational borders erected between past and present.
p. 93: We all, in various ways, desire an end to violence, but the problem of violence is not undone by giving ourselves over to the ironclad Law of the nonviolent (if even it were possible) and indeed such a relinquishing may do more to contribute to the persistence of tyranny than to its elimination.
98: The given culture of the colonized world is wholly and inextricably constituted in and through colonial violence: an ontological condition in which every social relation–economic, cultural, physical, and imaginary–is organized by violence.
104: Taken together these two military operations [first Gulf War and bombing of Kosovo], with their complex rearticulation of the relations between imperialist violence, international law, and the global human, mark a significant concatenation of powers at work toward a long future of cosmopolitan wars to come.
114: The fact that liberal commentators are frequently taken aback by positions adopted by the large human rights organizations evidences the degree to which human rights is shrouded in an ahistorical set of assumptions that suppose human rights to have some kind of ideal (platonic) form not subject to the contingencies and vicissitudes of power, interests, and politics. Consequently liberal advocates for human rights continually find their jaws dropping whenever the discourse of human rights is demonstrably shown to be in-history.
115: In this counterhegemonic project we need a more radical reckoning with what internationalist traditions from the International Workingmen’s Association to the World Social Forum, and from Du Bois and Fanon to Alexander and Mieville, have long recognized: imperialist interests and international justice can never be reconciled.
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