Sublime

The quickened pace, the waning of institutions, and the shifting and disappearing of meaning in modern society means it takes very little for us to entertain all sorts of threats.

It is partly the belief that we have become terrified, terrorized by who we happen to be, or think we are. And also that we have radically underestimated, radically under-described, our pleasures.

Citizenship is human nature: an intrinsic inclination, always bubbling, often suppressed, never wholly conquered, and now at a moment of huge opportunity.

whatever identity is, whatever the soul is, the institution is its opposite and its enemy.

Our “paranoia” indexes the ongoing imprinting of racialized microaggressions that produce powerful speculative fears about the effects racial difference can have not only on one's chances for getting laid but for more ontologically essential longings such as being wanted or loved.

The false solution of replacing individuals distracts us from building the mandate for deeper change; it erodes our agency.