Quotes About Enclosure

The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.

This is my heart, a bird in the building.

T]he characteristic ideology that set England apart from other European cultures was above all the ideology of 'improvement': not the Enlightenment idea of the improvement of humanity but the improvement of property, the ethic - and indeed the science - of profit, the commitment to increasing the productivity of labour, the production of exchange value, and the practice of enclosure and dispossession.

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

No better book ends than two walls.

The job of the skin is to keep it all in. -The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

You see the fence as something keeping the zoms out. I don't. I see it as the thing that pens us in. We're trapped here. Trapped isn't "alive." Trapped isn't "safe." And it isn't "free.

and in the darkness that was fast enclosing him he was filled with joy, because life is endless, its mysteries will never entirely be revealed, and to be human is to be alive in constant wonder.

parapets…I felt the battlements close in, enfolding

The old monetary mole is the animal of the spaces of enclosure, but the serpent is that of the societies of control. We have passed from one animal to the other, from the mole to the serpent, in the system under which we live, but also in our manner of living and in our relations with others. The disciplinary man was a discontinuous producer of energy, but the man of control is undulatory, in orbit, in a continuous network.

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

In any event he had to sleep in the tube that night

Encapsulation says that, not only are you allowed to take a simpler view of a complex concept, you are not allowed to look at any of the details of the complex concept. What you see is what you get—it's all you get!

The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come to know.

Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.

Thirty-nine years in the fish tank had caught up with me.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom.

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.