You’ve Heard This One Before
So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
For this reason, we may count ourselves fortunate that the anti–hate-speech campaign of the regulationists fizzled and has largely subsided. This particular effort to do away with nigger-as-insult and its kindred symbols was simply not worth the various costs that success would have exacted.
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
The New Critic’s Disease A review of the DOOM reviews, a critique of criticism, by way of Sontag and Wallace (On substack!) TY to Xandra, Miles and Emma for giving this a read through 🤍 I long for an erotics of art :)
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