Quotes by Disconnection Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence. Edward Hallowell disconnection lack-of-respect excellence Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. Giorgio Agamben disconnection contemporary demand