In his essay on the post-human, Amit Chaudhuri describes modernist sense-perception as Romanticism “renovated” in order to manage a crisis of banality. Such perception is marked by a contradictory “simultaneous suppression and indispensability of religious wonder” (Clearing a Space 282-283).He demonstrates this via Proust’s reconstruction of a scene in which the narrator stops at a […]

A universal condition of empty knowledge stemming from the indiscriminate sowing of internal divisions is not to be confused with the growth of knowledge. Rather it exhibits a preference for a kind of knowing that commands silence.Such divisions have never generated positive growth in the sense of producing structural lines that could serve as a […]