Top 6 James Hynes Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “An advertising man understands even more viscerally than an academic that the world is made of discourse, Pescecane argued; he understands in his bones that true power resides in the infinite manipulability of signs.”

— James Hynes

2. “Plotting is an organic, and wildly inefficient process of trial and error.”

— James Hynes

3. “Perhaps what Aristotle and Seneca were saying boils down to the same infinite regress, a pair of facing mirrors in which my own image recedes into the distance, until I dissolve in the darkness: I do what I’m told because I’m a slave, and I’m a slave because I do what I’m told.”

— James Hynes

4. “A spark embedded in a body meant for the use of others, shining for no one in the dark.”

— James Hynes

5. “Indeed, it was not unusual for the dais to be littered with panties and boxer shorts after one of Branwell’s talks at the MLA.”

— James Hynes

6. “But once violence has been expended and empire has taken some person, place, or thing as its own, it gives that person, place, or thing a new name and erases the old one. This new name also erases the history of that person, place, or thing, as if everything that came before never happened.”

— James Hynes

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