A subsidiary thesis: Modernity is motivated by a desire for purity, by dirt-avoidance – dirt being, as Mary Douglas says, “matter out of place.” Counter-modernity is dirt’s revenge, celebration of dirt.
A subsidiary thesis: Modernity is motivated by a desire for purity, by dirt-avoidance – dirt being, as Mary Douglas says, “matter out of place.” Counter-modernity is dirt’s revenge, celebration of dirt.