Quotes from Claire Colebrook

A problem is a way of creating a future. When plants grow and evolve they do so by way of problems, developing features to avoid predators, to maximise light or to retain moisture.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

The very existence of concepts such as justice, democracy and hospitality enables the promise of something beyond all conceived present possibilities: the only impossibility is the determination in advance that certain events would be impossible.

Our day-to-day concepts do not capture what a concept is because they do not allow the full force of what a concept can do.