(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 13
“ The current crisis of the future is not visible, it is a possibility on the way to reality. … It is an invisible immiseration in the face of flourishing wealth. Ulrich Beck. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Sage Publications, 1992.