A Brief Preamble

“In what is given to us as universal,necessary, obligatory, what place is occupied by whatever is singular, contingent, and the product of arbitrary constraints?” Michel Foucault, What Is Enlightenment.

In case the above quote isn’t enough of a clue, I’ll provide a confirmation: yes, this blog is going to feature plenty of academically inclined, theoretically influenced, left-leaning scribblings with the loose theme of trying to find points at which the logic of a world presented to us as natural and inevitable begins to break down (I have no doubt that, on many occasions, it will actually involve me spouting rubbish with regard to far more mundane concerns). Hopefully, as well as providing me with a reason for getting my thoughts down and organised in writing, it may also provide the odd moment of interest for anyone else looking in.

~ by Steve on July 13, 2008.