(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 17
“ In [the video], a student asks a school nurse, ‘What if I want to have sex before I get married?’ To which the nurse replies, ‘Well, I guess you’ll just have to be prepared to die.’ Laurie Abraham. “Teaching Good Sex.” The New York Times, Nov 16, 2011. (see also)