Title : “I think mayonnaise—actually, sorry, this is stupid, this is crazy"/"Not at all"/"I think mayonnaise has a complex kind of relation to the sublime."
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“I think mayonnaise—actually, sorry, this is stupid, this is crazy"/"Not at all"/"I think mayonnaise has a complex kind of relation to the sublime."
"And I think emulsion does generally. It’s something about that intermediary—I don’t know—place, between being solid and being a liquid, that has a weird relation to the sublime, in the sense that the sublimity of it is in the indefinable nature of it"/"It’s liminal also"/"It’s liminal, and it connects to the body in a certain way"/"You have to shake it up. You have to put the energy into it to get it into that state"/"Anyway... mostly I just don’t fucking like it."From "Fred Moten’s Radical Critique of the Present" in The New Yorker. Moten, the first speaker in the dialogue above, is a "poet, critic, theorist, and NYU professor. He has a book of essays titled "Stolen Life." Here's a quote from it:
"Black studies is a dehiscence at the heart of the institution on its edge; its broken, coded documents sanction walking in another world while passing through this one, graphically disordering the administered scarcity from which black studies flows as wealth."The New Yorker saves us the trouble of looking up "dehiscence" by telling us it's "a surgical complication in which a wound ruptures along a surgical incision." But I still feel compelled to look up "liminal." I mean, I kind of know the word, but why are these 2 men so easily agreeing on the liminality of mayonnaise?!
The OED gives this as the first meaning: "That has the lowest amount necessary to produce a particular effect; minimal; insignificant." Sample quote (from T.C. Boyle): "The liminal smile, the coy arch of the eyebrows."
Second meaning: "Characterized by being on a boundary or threshold, esp. by being transitional or intermediate between two states, situations, etc." Sample quote: "Airports are places of waiting and uncertainty—liminal, indeterminate spaces, caught between one world and another." Yeah, that's kind of like mayonnaise. I mean, if you're going through airport security and you've got mayonnaise, do you have to limit yourself 3 ounces and put it in the see-through, quart-size bag?
Third meaning: "Cultural Anthropol. Of or relating to a transitional or intermediate state between culturally defined stages of a person's life, esp. as marked by a ritual or rite of passage; characterized by liminality." That's limited to cultural anthropology, and while I'm prepared to riff on the cultural anthropology of mayonnaise...
... the definition does specify "stages of a person's life," and there's no personification of mayonnaise... is there?
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