Quotes by Jane Bennett

A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully out in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to pure immanence, or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

“A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully out in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to pure immanence, or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.”