one to watch - the young hegelian

"In form, in style, this weblog draws upon a thought of Walter Benjamin, that "ideas' intensive infinitude characterises them as monads". By writing episodically, attending to fragments and ephemera, quotations, images, cultural detritus, the overlooked detail, one can paradoxically gain a brief conspectus upon the whole world. But only because that world itself "totalises", because every phenomena is related to, is mediated by the whole, because there is "nothing immediate under the sun" (Hegel nodding towards Ecclesiastes). Criticism thereby becomes a task, an "infinitesimal task" as Benjamin put it, a task of penetrating into the real by focussing upon the smallest most neglected subjects, the most overlooked reified things which people our empty lives. The intention – to reveal something of the whole in all its contradictory inadequacy."