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Banal, in that, despite an uncustomary gentleness of mien, the morphological type was one very much in the public domain; it exemplified what I take to be a specifically American criterion of ‘cuteness’ – which is to say, beauty untranscended by mystery, tragedy or spirituality, beauty golden and well nourished and so vacuously secure in its own
... See moreGilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
At the same time, communities in developing Asia have also begun to reach back into the values and practices of dialogical transcendence to salvage their worlds.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
based on a metaphysics and ontology of interconnectedness; takes multiple, open-ended forms; questions monolithic identity categories and static concepts of selfhood;
AnaLouise Keating • Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
Our nation-centered view of sovereign citizenship can only comprehend the predicament of minoritarian ‘belonging’ as a problem of ontology
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
Intimate virtuality in this way communicates fragile, ambivalent, but nonetheless real, experiential, and ethical movements that strain against (without fully escaping) the limits of identitarian forms.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
An environmentalist such as Vandana Shiva directs her critique and ire less at national governments than at the idea of the global itself.