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Making sense (of ethnography)

The philosopher must be sufficiently perverse to play the game of truth and error badly: this perversity, which operates in paradoxes, allows him to escape the grasp of categories. But aside from this, he must be sufficiently ‘ill-humored’ to persist in his confrontation with stupidity, to remain motionless to the point of stupefaction in order […]

Who’s watching your drink?

“Who’s watching your drink? Let your hair down, not your guard.” In bright pink with big black block lettering, of course.
“Enjoy your night.  Know your limits.  Zero tolerance towards violence.”
A textual exhibition of the physiology of alcohol (and its rapacious others).  A drug defines its own textuality, its own social limits, its own legal presence […]

A profound boredom

The difficulties derived from the project itself, which was intended precisely to avoid them.  By programming my work over several volumes according to a plan laid down in advance, I was telling myself that the time had now come when I could write them without difficulty, and simply unwind what was in my head, confirming […]