(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 31
“ Society is a reality sui genris; it has its own characteristics that are either not found in the rest of the universe or are not found there in the same form. Emile Durkheim. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Karen E. Fields (trans). Simon & Schuster, 1995.