“In the state of exception, the individual becomes an object, a life stripped of all rights—a mere existence left to languish under a power that cares nothing for its survival.”
— Giorgio Agamben
“I am not ashamed to say it: this civilization, as it decomposes, brings only ruin, only degradation—a world in which the human spirit is ground to dust.”
— Aimé Césaire
“The subaltern voice is not merely silenced; it is annihilated, erased by a world that permits no language for suffering, no recognition of its existence.”
— Gayatri Spivak
“Violence seeps into the marrow of society, taking root in the ordinary until each gesture, each interaction, becomes haunted by an unseen terror.”
— Veena Das
“Life is consigned to death; it is as if death is the only master of this earth, turning existence into a space where people are merely bodies to be discarded.”
— Achille Mbembe
“The Anthropocene reveals a horizon of collapse—of life entangled in a web of destruction, where the world as we know it trembles on the brink of irreversible desolation.”