Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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I'm Defending the Status Quo in Criticism
I met a trap only in the sense that you were sort of laying it out as if there were very, very crudely binary positions that I was arguing back and forth between. And in fact, I'm trying to smush these things together to show certain continuities, which again, I think on the whole you and I would probably agree about. So where it would maybe come to a head is I was not suggesting that the only thing about the street is an aesthetic value," he says. "You can't just talk about it formally without talking about the representation of black life"
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