Saturday, January 26, 2008

The passions that haunt real and regular encounters with others

January 26, 2008 Elusive Texts Posted by larvalsubjects under Analysis, Appearance, Assemblages, Blogging, Communication, Difference, Writing
At the conference, the academic individuated in an ecology of books and articles, encounters the rude and belligerent questioner as a jerk who is just being difficult and who has failed to behave reasonably. Yet in the blogosphere one discovers that the reasonable is a sort of transcendental illusion or fetish, borne of those who spend their time silently with the non-responsive book or article, seldom encountering the passions that haunt real and regular encounters with others.

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