Sublime

Yet I wonder if a narrative as broad and grand as he offers can ultimately avoid that question. Why do some ideas end up as part of the social imaginary while others do not?

The aesthete doesn’t really ask whether something is good or bad but only whether it is interesting.

I explore what models of social relation and community these practices can produce, while I remain wary of models that either fetishize a myth of a unified singularity and thereby obliterate difference, or propose an unresolved multitude. I seek models of community that recognize people’s social interdependence without assimilating their distinctiv

treats as quantifiable and repeatable what is really continuous qualitative change.

his career makes it clear that he is indeed, in the literal Cahiers du Cinema sense, an auteur, willing to make the sorts of sacrifices for creative control that real auteurs have to make—choices that indicate either raging egotism or passionate dedication or a childlike desire to run the whole sandbox, or all three.

elements of your opponents’ position.

continues to make available transformative contacts and encounters, as well as precipitating a more expansive theoretical and political imagination.