I’m no longer convinced of primal aggression as the wellspring of cultural pursuits in light of a claim elaborated by Chakraborti in his 1985 study of the unhappy consciousness (called up from the dusty stacks of the New York Public Library) – a claim that Thomas Mann had already asserted when he called Freud a […]
The arrival at an original or authentic condition is considered a virtue that calls for the taking up of structuring antagonisms and the production of meaningful expression that is simultaneously independent of any such structure yet informed by it somehow, all of which ought to be incidental in manner.From Kant, that which limits is a […]
Contemporary critiques of provincialism rarely stray from the observation that even those representationally disadvantaged with respect to post-humanist, post-capitalist values and norms tacitly and in an uncomplicated way share in those very assumptions. Such discourse is unsatisfying insofar as it means to diagnose as at bottom an excess of passivity on my part, and in […]