antagonist

At age 25, the then young sociologist Richard Sennett describes the genesis of what he calls the purified identity. This identity is the direct result of a defensive measure again the raw reality of diversified human experiences. Brilliantly using Marlaux’s novel The Conquerors, Sennett shows how we pre-advance a fully constituted, rigid or inert identity [...]

I know that I would be more productive (and less twitchily dissatisfied) if I could partially withdraw from cyberspace , where much of my activitity – or rather interpassivity – involves opening up multiple windows and pathetically cycling through twitter and email for updates, like a lab rat waiting for another hit. (The rat analogy [...]