Thanks again for your wonderful talk in Belfast at the weekend. I really enjoyed listening to your analysis and suggestions and I was so pleased to hear the gnarly topic of why it’s worthwhile at all addressed, or even called out as critical.
It reminded me a little of Paul de Man on pedagogy: I wonder whether if criticism is read (or should be read) as an inherently pedagogical mode then criticism can be recuperated to an non-appropriative exercise that avoids epistemological damage to its subjects by making each encounter with them a fresh engagement. It seems to be that that’s the best way to find ethical subjectivity and avoid the memorializing/objectifying tendency that you point to. If it’d be possible to read the paper through I’d love to to appreciate it better.
How was the rest of the conference for you?
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