Theory, Practice and the Time of Practice

Barbara Johnson in the interview published with her Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory as The Wake of Deconstruction says

Analysis and action are not necessarily separable, but they may obey different temporalities.

Thinking and doing carve out the possibilities of our being. The trick is to be aware that sometimes one is faster than the other. There is no knowing in advance which is the laggard.

And so for day 646
19.09.2008