The death of the cemetery walker
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S lets me in on all the conspiracy theories, not because they're good
stories, but because he believes in them. We haven't talked much since the
election,...
2 days ago
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Whose heart is deaf? He who frames the terms of the argument is only listening to the echoes of his own non-hearing, right? Is this what De Mann meant by the violence of language?
Most blindness is only partial and well-intentioned at that--but the harm it does is still incalculable.
Whoops, it's Paul de Man who talks about the violence of conceptual totalization, not another critic with the similar name "Mann."
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