Moral Shock and Trans ‘Worlds’ of Sense

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how shock is shared but nothing is done from it, how time can feel like a rubber band that in moments of tension is stretched out of place and snaps right back to its regular business-as-usual form.

Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water

Business as usual is often a way to impose a perverse political and moral calculus while depicting it as “common sense.” As Clayton aptly observes, “The most consistent hallmark of someone with an agenda, it seems, is the excessive denial of having one.”

Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)

Some colleagues I know even speak of an “ethics of weirdness”, something I hope to work on more and that would presumably involve risk, improvisation, nonsense, even magic, not to mention a refusal to retreat before the bizarre, the disturbing, the nonhuman, the unthinkable. To turn and face the strange; to stay with the trouble.

Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal

Repugnance, here as elsewhere, revolts against the excesses of human willfulness, warning us not to transgress what is unspeakably profound. Indeed, in this age in which everything is held to be permissible so long as it is freely done, in which our given human nature no longer commands respect, in which our bodies are regarded as mere instruments

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

It’s the homogenizing logic of paranoia that works overtime to flatten or disregard such differences; it’s the homogenizing logic of paranoia that demands that all people have the same response to them, and always will.

Maggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Repugnance warning that we've gone too far even when we have no moral justification "shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder"