07 Feb Joint Subjectivity
Fred Newman and I wrote this nearly 20 years ago. What do you think today?
Over nearly three decades we have described our work (our politics) in many different ways. Perhaps this is an expression or result of differing elements of our joint subjectivity–
a moral and scientific aversion to labels and being labeled,
an intellectual delight in the search for a (never-realizable) linguistic precision,
a strong disbelief/mistrust of consistency,
a political passion for creating something new out of what exists (the old),
a desire to speak to and with those for whom our work (our politics) has some relevance or interest (and those whose work we find relevant or interesting),
a playful pleasure in and tactical commitment to provocation.
With all of that, we are of course (hopefully) responding to a changing world.
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