Modernity and dirt

Modernity and dirt 2017-09-07T00:10:16+06:00

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.


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