“How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. “We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines.” In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes – or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.”

“How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. “We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines.” In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes – or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.”

— Achille Mbembe