Monthly Archives: October 2021
Postmodernity, pluralism, politics.
Post-modern societies are so plural that anyone, no matter how much they conform to one norm, can plausibly claim to “transgress” another.
Ironic, don’t you think?
It is ironic how un-ironic “ironic racism” is.
Assume that capitalism, patriarchy, and empire are absolute truths.
Only on this assumption can one claim that socialism, feminism, and decolonization are “morally relativistic.”
Readers and distance.
For every creative reader of a book, there are dozens of close readers who, holding their copies an inch from their face, just can’t wait to offer corrections.
In it.
The infinitesimal is in the infinite; the infinite is in the infinitesimal.
Universalism.
Insides with outsides.
Self and others.
Think for yourself; act with others.
Sun Shuyun, “The Long March.”
The book complicates history so as to maintain the heroism under complexified conditions.
After postmodernism.
History with a big H is back, whether we like it or not. Whether humanity with a little h is back is up to us.
What kind of responsibility?
Ninety nine times out of one hundred, responsibility means conformity to moral standards. One time, responsibility means everything.
Art of Aphorism 
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