Quotes from Leo Bersani

It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it was, in any case, always an illusion to think we possessed.

Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.

power aims to produce subjects defined (and, correlatively, made visible and controlled) by particular desires.