(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
November 2

Zygmunt Bauman. “Zygmunt Bauman: ‘No one is in control. That is the major source of contemporary fear.’” The Guardian, September 1, 2011.