(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 11
“ The crowd overflowed from a central city square, forcing stragglers to climb trees or watch from the opposite riverbank. ‘We exist!’ they chanted. ‘We exist!’ Ellen Barry. “Tens of Thousands Protest Against Putin in Moscow.” The New York Times, Dec. 11, 2011.