“In the history of English poetry, the window has often been conceived of as a figure for imagination, as a kind of lenses through which we see, through which we envision. Part of what is at stake is, 'to fix a broken window,' is to fix another way of imagining the world. To literally fix it, to destroy it, to regulate it, to exclude it, to incarcerate it. But also, at the same time, to incorporate it, to capitalize upon it, to exploit it, to accumulate it. This State can't live with us, and they can't live without us. It is important to recognize too that the broken window, the alternative-unfixed-window through which we see the world, is not just the way in which we see something which doesn’t exist. It is also the way we see and imagine that which does exist. It is important to imagine how things might be otherwise, but it is also really, really important to understand and to see who and what we are right now. Because I think they see who and what we are.” ___Fred Moten
"the study of what "is written" is also the science of what story we are compelled to invent in the face of what we cannot know is coming." –alexis pauline gumbs