By Brandon Terry In the prologue to his Conscripts of Modernity, David Scott charges postcolonial theory broadly with a failure to pursue an “adequate interrogation of the present,” and a concomitant failure to identify “the difference between the questions that… Continue Reading
By Homi K. Bhabha “I must constantly remind myself that the real leap consists of introducing invention into life.” “At the start of his life, a man is always congested, drowned in contingency. The misfortune of man is that he was once… Continue Reading
By Emily Apter In his post for this week’s 13/13 Bernard Harcourt exhorts us to essentially “forget Nietzsche” (using Nietzsche contra Nietzsche, as only Nietzsche might commission his own, nihilistic self-forgetting); to provincialize Nietzsche in line with Dipesh Chakrabarthy’s injunction… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Each age has its peculiar opacities and its urgent missions. The parts we play in the design and direction of historical transformations are shadowed by the contingency of events and the quality of our characters. Sometimes… Continue Reading