(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 19
The New Yorker, October 24, 2011.

The New Yorker, October 24, 2011.

(Source: newyorker, via rachelfershleiser)