13 Mar Academia and the allure of beauty

It’s very easy to get caught up in our respective areas of darkness – the weight of neoliberal restructuring of capital flows, the constraints and functions of the nation-state, the difficulties and presuppositions of development programs, the utter devastation of economic pressures on ecological fragility, the struggle between humanism and post-humanism as we ache to find the moment of nebulous and clouded truth that begins to get at the totality, complexity and utter unknowability of all that is this world.

But i sometimes wonder where the room is for the utter gorgeousness of all that is …