Open AccessAN INFRASTRUCTURAL MOMENT IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Author(s) -
FORTUN KIM,
FORTUN MIKE
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca30.3.01
Subject(s) - moment (physics) , human science , sociology , political science , social science , physics , classical mechanics
The essay is both more open and more closed than traditional thought would like. It is more open in so far as, through its inner nature, it negates anything systematic and satisfies itself all the better the more strictly it excludes the systematic. . . . On the other hand, the essay is more closed in that it labors emphatically on the form of its presentation. The consciousness of the nonidentity between presentation and presented material forces the form to make unlimited efforts. —T. W. Adorno, “The Essay as Form”