A typical description of the blog sounds like Eliza Williams’ post in Creative Review: “His project is a truly ‘human’ one, revealing the vast commonalities in all our lives, and in our hopes and dreams, no matter how different our day-to-day circumstances may be.” Such a statement asserts not only that what the blog expresses accurately reflects the nature of a universal “humanity,” but also that such commonalities supersede the differences that characterize society. Further, understanding these differences as mere variation in “our day-to-day circumstances,” as happenstances in the expressions of culture, denies the very real structural impediments and barriers, based on race, class, gender, and other social markers, that separate people and their experiences. Such issues most require empathy—which is here precluded by prosaic sentiment warscapes/opinion/sentimentality-critique-humans-new-york
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:13:08 +0000
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