I’ve talked before about my idea — more like a vague feeling — that some discourses are basilisks. Basically, there are some discourses that are so bad that the only healthy way to engage with them is not only not to engage with them but if possible not to directly look at them. Certainly to attend to them with any specificity is to boost their power. Y…
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