A great one from
the archive— on mercy and moral humiliation in racial reckoning. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What do ppl IMAGINE it would look like for a collection of citizens effectively to say to a government that's not listening, "NO. SERIOUSLY. STOP. OVER MY DEAD BODY." What could possibly express that with greater economy and power than this action?

The idea that actions like this are aimed at swaying public opinion is willfully obtuse. Public opinion is swayed. It's with them. They act so as to express that very "opinion" to a set of institutions and institutional actors in the language they might actually register.

Can’t recommend this book highly enough to philosophers. A fun, exciting peak into what’s happening at the bleeding edge of psychoanalytic thinking, with energizingly original explorations of (among other things) our conceptions of the aesthetic and agential.