“ … the prophetic tone favored by the New Philosophers, the one that confidently predicts the ‘end’ (of various ‘old dogmas’) at the same time as the ‘return’ (to ‘democracy,’ ‘the market,’ ‘ethics’—or in this case, ‘human rights’). The prophetic tone has the advantage of remaining suspended between the constative and the performative, thus providing both a description of the new world and a prescription for making the world conform to what the proposed description says.
— Kristin Ross, May ‘68 and Its Afterlives (UChicago, 2002) 161
