when dostoevsky said ‘i want to talk about everything with atleast one person the way i talk about things with myself’ and (as if almost conversely) when clarice lispector said ‘it is inside myself that i must create someone who will understand’
I love critical theory, I love seminars, I love reading groups, I love universities as public goods, I love historiography of disciplines and knowledge itself, I love difficulty and difficult questions, and I love the humanities being human. And that's the hill I die on.