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To be haunted in the name of a will to heal is to allow the ghost to help you imagine what was lost that never even existed, really. That is its utopian grace: to encourage a steely sorrow laced with delight for what we lost that we never had; to long for the insight of that moment in which we recognize, as in Benjamin's profane illumination, that it could have been and can be otherwise.

Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters

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Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"

(first published in Vanity Fair in 1924)

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The Reconstructionists: Week Three

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There is a certain left intellectual position that holds out critique as an unadulterated good. Critique is superior, more knowing, more responsible than action. Indeed, it’s held up against action, support, enthusiasm, as the more responsible and mature position. What are the presumptions at work in such a vision of critique? 1. That one’s opponent is uncritical—as if the ideas expressed had not themselves been products of critical reflection. 2. As if any and every space were the right space for critique because critique is always right. The problems with such a view, particularly now, is that they neglect the characteristics of our setting: 1. Constant critique and cynicism. 2. The academy as industry. 3. The need for left mobilization, coalition, and hope. I have never met an activist or intellectual who didn’t live and breath critique. That’s how we wake up, eat, drink, and go to sleep. We are constantly critical. But in our enthusiasm for critique we neglect the ways we become dependent on its displacements of responsibility and activity, as well as it inner satisfactions of knowingness. For activists and intellectuals, it’s not a matter, now, of being insufficiently critical. It’s a matter of courage and will to push forward. We are already critical, together, in various settings. We don’t need to, and shouldn’t be, critical of ourselves in every place and every time. We need to build ourselves, our confidence, and our mutual trust.

I cite: Critique (via lazz)

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[If] you apply the logic of critique too consistently, you create this almost gnostic notion of reality, that the one thing we can do is to be the person who realizes the world is wrong. It may be incredibly rewarding intellectually, but it’s also a terrible trap. I always go back to Marx’s famous phrase from 1843, “Toward a Ruthless Critique of Everything That Exists.” It was something he wrote when he was twenty-five, which is appropriate for that age. When I was younger, I felt that way, too. Now I feel that such ruthlessness has its price.

David Graeber (via lazz)