Mar 14, 2015
"There is something distinctly precapitalist in the inclination of the King and his poets to purify the commerce of words, to render the language fluent, and to regenerate an urban circulation hindered by the accumulation of waste. This compulsive purification makes most sense when understood not as a step forward in history, but as a regression that paralleled the Renaissance's return to the values of antiquity in other spheres. "Humanism", in fact, could be define by its penchant for waste, that is, human waste." #adayinbed #flu #historyofshit (at Dehavilland Studios)