(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
December 10
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Nate DiMeo. “Far Below Lake Michigan.” The Memory Palace, Dec 6, 2011.

See also William McNeill on the conservation of catastrophe, in “Control and Catastrophe in Human Affairs.” Daedalus, Winter 1989.