Ten Quotes

Early 21st century.

‘I never fucked Wayne, I never fucked Drake.’—Nicki Minaj

‘It’s better than I ever even knew.’—Lana Del Rey

‘“Let’s stop it”, Crutzen recalls blurting out. “We are no longer in the Holocene. We are in the Anthropocene.” Well, it was quiet in the room for a while. When the group took a coffee break, the Anthropocene was the main topic of conversation. Someone suggested that Crutzen copyright the word.’— Elizabeth Kolbert

‘Based God fucked my bitches.’—Lil B, aka The Based God

‘Grand mal d’archive.’—Tom Cohen

‘There is something he doesn’t know.’—Hélène Cixous

‘The end of the world is like, you know, it’s like an asteroid, it just, like, rarely happens, I think, to anyone, most of the time’—@tao_lin, 5 Feb, 2012

‘This world isn’t going to change’—@Ordinarypopstar, 12 Jan, 2015

‘the problem with the world is that it just does not end it doesn’t end it doesn’t, for real’—@preteengallery, 12 Jan, 2015

‘It’s moving pretty quick now, we might not make it . . .’—Fred Moten