Eternal Refiguration: or how “modernity” can’t help but be “surprised” every time it refigures what discarded Tradition knew centuries ago.

History isn’t optional.i Being that it’s essentially the root networkii of our cultural trees, it irrepressibly generates ancient interconnections, permeating unknowably vast expanses of time and place. History also happens to be un-Modern, which is to say un-Marxist, which is to say individualising (ie. masculinising) rather than collectivising (ie. feminising), which is ultimately to say […]