(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 22
“Chinese police show off a new crowd control weapon, a giant fork, during a drill in Beijing.” STR/AFP/Getty Images, October 12, 2011. (via In Focus)

“Chinese police show off a new crowd control weapon, a giant fork, during a drill in Beijing.” STR/AFP/Getty Images, October 12, 2011. (via In Focus)