Refusing Complicity

Desire to Be Known by a Name

“I am no longer an intellectual. My favorite artist is Ms. Rachel.”

Introducing Refusing Complicity

Style Is Not Secondary

“Everyone living in the United States for long risks becoming stupid without a supreme effort to refuse it.”

The Difficulty of Nothing

“Though I know I did not stop the genocide, I know that I did not accelerate it either. That is not nothing.”

The Failure to Crossover

“Writing becomes both witness and wound”

The Insistence of the Scar

“The lineage of the repressed, the tradition of the oppressed, is nothing but a series of ongoing attempts to enact unrealized disorders.”