(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
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Subway buskers pt. vii: 110th st 1 train station. 10/22/11, 5:55pm. Electric guitar and voice: Medley (“Misty” and “The Girl from Ipanema”).