The New Inquiry (Such was the point of what I tried to unpack elsewhere about salvage and sabotage: the innate, obscure, and tremendously specific hostility of things – a hostility that emerges from the general fact of an entire social order, but which shows itself in quite particular arrangements of sharpness, toxicity, rigidity, bacteria, and capacity to rot – emerges only when they stop working as they were meant to and begin to stumble, or are willfully taken up, into an arrangement and usage that lets that hostility and different utility roar into view.)

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Notes Such was the point of what I tried to unpack elsewhere about salvage and sabotage: the innate, obscure, and tremendously specific hostility of things – a hostility that emerges from the general fact of an entire social order, but which shows itself in quite particular arrangements of sharpness, toxicity, rigidity, bacteria, and capacity to rot – emerges only when they stop working as they were meant to and begin to stumble, or are willfully taken up, into an arrangement and usage that lets that hostility and different utility roar into view.

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