The Banana Peel Project

Hypostatization is that trick of the mind which transforms the complex into the simple, the local into the universal, and the temporary into the eternal.  What is lost in this translation?  Is anything saved?
Addiction, the movement from an instrumental practice to an uncontrollable compulsion.
Refusal, a strategic and localized resistance that has become a principle of […]

I just read some heart-poundingly beautiful stuff, and had to share it:
I regard the bad conscience as the serious illness which man was bound to contract under the stress of the most radical change which he has ever experienced–that change, when he found himself finally imprisoned within the pale of society and of peace.
Just like […]

On this month-and-a-day anniversary of my hiatus from peeling bananas, I’d like to reinject some life into this space by reproducing a relatively well-known–and honestly reflective–passage from Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge (an extended treatise on methodology, historical ontology, and postmodernism whose secrets have the mischievous tendency to slide in and out of the […]