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Wendy Brown

Wendy Brown Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Wendy Brown

Birthname

Nationality: Australia

Occupations: Journalist, Children's Writer, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“The Berlin Wall, retrospectively signifying the imprisonment of a population presume desirous of escaping Soviet domination, was originally conceived as a protective cordon around a fragile new society, a society based on work, cooperation, and egalitarianism, rather than individualism, competition, and hierarchy. The architects of the new Communist society believed the laboratory of social and psychological experiments out of which it would be born required insulation from a corrupting and decadent outside.”

— Wendy Brown, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Tagged: Insulation, Closure, Walls, Berlin Wall

“Are we so accustomed to being watched that we cannot feel real, cannot feel our experiences to be real, unless we are watching and reporting on them?”

— Wendy Brown, Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

Tagged: Privacy, Reporting, Social Media, Unreality

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