"While Foucault might argue that Renaissance perspective never managed to fully disentangle itself from the significatory system of the preclassical episteme where the relation between observer and observed was set within a framework “coeval with the institution of God” (The Order of Things 34), Descartes’s own meditations on rationality and substance in the seventeenth century to which the classical episteme is indebted were part of an excursus on divine existence as well."
- A typical sentence from my Critical Race Theory reading this week, from Robyn Wiegman’s American Anatomies. It is times like these I realize what I missed by basically skipping a liberal arts undergrad education. Been awhile since my reaction to every other sentence in a reading has been a “WHAT?” of confusion rather than anger/annoyance.
