The force of an idea lies primarily in its ability to be displaced

The force of an idea lies primarily in its ability to be displaced.

Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space (Verso, 2008) p. 152

The scope and manner of the mind's attention are social facts

The disequilibrium of the boat [...] is only a dialectical response, a fun-house mirror reflection of an initial disfiguration or mutilation inflicted under capitalism: the closure of fields of socially available perception, the reduction not only of the environment of freedom but also of the very desire for and memory of that environment. Familiarity with capitalist culture persuades us that this limitation – the specific way people, their bodies, and their physical perceptions are organized within capitalism – is not historical but natural and physical. Yet the scope and manner of the mind's attention, or of the body's capacity for sensation, are social facts – and it is precisely the blindness and dullness peculiar to social relation in market society that enable us to deny the social and allow it to be subsumed in the biological.

Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space (Verso, 2008) p. 120

Détournement has no other place but the place of the other

Détournement has no other place but the place of the other; it plays on imposed terrain and its tactics are determined by the absence of a "proper place".

Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space (Verso, 2008) p. 42

Emancipation must be based on a principle other than work

Emancipation – the transformation of a servile identity into a free identity – must be based on a principle other than work, since the exercise and defense of work are what constitute the servile identity. Emancipation follows from dispensing with the positivities of workers' community, and from radicalizing that atomization instead.

Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space (Verso, 2008) p. 20