(Notes on) Panic & Plentitude

"American citizens in particular are encouraged to fracture their self-conceptions on the hard edges of panic and plentitude, suspicion and sympathy, particularity and universalism."
--Castiglia and Castronovo, A "Hive of Subtlety": Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Criticism
October 15
“ In one case reported in 1964, a man lost his memory the moment he orgasmed, causing him to exclaim, ‘Where am I? What’s happened?’ Stephanie Pappas. “‘Mind-Blowing’ Sex Can Wipe Memory Clean.” LiveScience, October 11, 2011. Original cite: C.M. Fisher and R.D. Adams, Transient global amnesia. Acta Neurol Scand Suppl,  40 Suppl 9 (1964), pp. 1–83.