(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
February 29
“ In the end, that might be the walking stick’s best argument: I’m still here. Don’t let me go. Robert Krulwich. “Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 years.” NPR, Feb 29, 2012.