Dissensus has been suffering from his recently. We all have got into the habit of skimming, delivering quick, glib responses. Harvesting laugh emojis and so on.
It's probably time to push consciously and deliberately against that process and find ways to deepen the engagement, be more thoughtful and be more pretentious, not across the board, but at particular points.
Kill the speed kill the information kill the opinions and take stock of what's going on.
One of things I like about Prynne is that he enforces that slowing down because the poems are not poems you can reduce to understanding. But Heidegger can do the same, any number of writers can do the same job. Giving you something which is too hard, a surface with no obvious footholds and fingerholds, where you really have to interrogate that cliff face till it exhausts you.
And yes, threads like oozey anthem help demonstrate that this can be done with artefacts which initially seem to offer everything at a single glance, but as always, the more you look, the more is there, all the way down to the atomic level and beyond. You'll never bottom out.
Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne’s remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, “Resistance and Difficulty,” originally published in Prospect 5, (…
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