![]() In a Marxian and Hegelian framework, totality functions to wed theorizing about the existing mode of production with employed categories of social reflection. I think a lot about totality-the thinking of wholes as wholes, the thinking of wholes as wholes as a kind of prerequisite and precondition for thinking. Here is an entry that I found and wrote around on Dalton Trumbo’s “banned book” Johnny Got His Gun, amongst other things. Andrews, Scotland across from the Medieval History Institute where my colleague and I daily worked. ![]() Other occasions, they include the random traces of unshakeable friendship: the notebook for the second half of my book includes a listing of maritime themed cooking ware sold at the local fishery in St. The notebook that informed the first three chapters of The Black Radical Tragic contains five pages of dragonfly sketches, composed in Kasos, Greece as my friends and I watched nightly the bombing of Libya across the sea. Sometimes the levity of such notebooks’ contents betrays the grim context of their composition. Notational collage of this sort helps me to unpack problems of method and composition, form and content, the categories and concepts employed in dialectical thought. ![]() Mine aren’t so much diaristic, but rather working lists, larval thoughts, production notes for films that will never be made. If I don’t start crying it’s because I’ve got no eyes. ![]()
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