@ContingentWest I have so much resistance to his particularly Romantic utopian thinking (returns to a pre-Marx theory of history) the problem is that it resonates so much - it’s appeal really exemplifies Benjamin as a ‘writer’ more than anything else
Eu amo o Herzog como cineasta e pensador mas a ideia de que a análise “ilumina excessivamente” os “recantos” da sua alma pressupõe 1) uma visão more geometrico da psique que Freud DESTRUIU 2) a psicanálise está tão preocupada em incapacitar as “sombras” de te fazerem mal (esse +
kinda crazy that there isn't a wikipedia page for Legitime Defense, the short lived Martinican Surrealist journal. (came up when browsing Rene Menil) I mean there are better sources than wikipedia, but it's not even that obscure of a reference !
Thinking about this quirky (neutral) return to laclau in the context of Stuart hall/new left drifting away from post-Marxism on the grounds that the laclau was always a philosopher first, Hall’s critique is ultimately, “textuality is never enough”
@SanNuvola more from the comp lit side, my undergrad prof wrote this article on fieldwork (and the distance it is carried/translated across) I've always liked - https://t.co/9WMg26o6Kt