Hyper, pessimistic activism

“There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation.  This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalisable claims.  It is rather, the emergence of theory at the site where cultural horizons meet, where the demand for translation is acute and its promise of success, uncertain.” (Gender Trouble (1999 preface) p.x) Stumbling across things like this now and again puts the spring in your step.