君子不器
“I submit that postmodern writing presents two very different affects, two vicissitudes emblematic of two distinctly different modes of postmodern sensibility. Moreover, these opposing affects may be allied with two readings of “paranoia”: in the first instance, the postmodern condition leads to illness, a system closed upon itself, a condition of isolation and a collapse…
How to Live Less Anxiously in Academe Step No. 1: Kill your institutional aspirations. Step No. 2: Be an amateur. Step No. 3: Stop writing badly. Step No. 4: Start teaching well. ~~~
In short, for an action to be “moral,” it must not be reducible to an act or a series of acts conforming to a rule, a law, or a value. Of course all moral action involves a relationship with the reality in which it is carried out, and a relationship with the self. The latter…