FEAR NOT

“Perhaps contemporary intellectuals experience anxiety in the face of the idea of radical change because we fear projecting only a repetition of our own sullied world under the guise of the new or because we cannot distinguish between the rhythms of change inherent in the system of late capitalism and changes that might actually displace the system by a new one altogether. Whatever the reasons, we remain—for the most part—stuck either celebrating the products of postmodern culture, thereby replicating the giddy rhythms of the postmodern ‘change’ itself; endlessly diagnosing the problem, thereby critiquing a system whose failures are by now well known; or enclosing genuinely new situations in past narratives or paradigms of understanding, thereby failing to understand uniqueness”

—Ellen E. Berry and Carol Siegel


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