Confused Parchments, Infinite Socialities

My response to Michael Warner’s review of Secularism in Antebellum America wrapped inside a statement on the analytical problems and prospects of enchantment.

“So I can appreciate the political freedoms instantiated by all manner of buffering formations: the social contract, provisions against pick-pocketing and leg-breaking, my mortgage, my life insurance, my Amazon wish list, my hyperlinked name at the top of this post, the MRI machines that resonate with my hydrogen nuclei (and erase my credit cards in the process), the designer drugs tailored perfectly to my taste for elliptical perception … read more>“