簡介 | Butler’s case shows that American theory has reversed old starving guardians into contemporary intellectual nurture. But, as her marble totem to grief suggests, while this theoretical spectacle is going on, history follows the opposite course, preferring (both on the inside and on the outside) the irrational, the easy warmth of old stuffy cameos to the loud life of new images. The question is whether we really want to move on from that scene of subjection. In the fragility of a wish lies a future of possibilities—and of critical thinking. |