
Universal Basic Income or a federal Job Guarantee? The discussion continues as to whether we should pursue a redistributive welfare system or a predistributive politics that reorganizes social provisioning.
Much has been made of the fact that “critique,” as practiced in literary criticism, is an attitude. But critique is also an argument. If there are so many problems with the assumption that literary form represents an imaginative solution to real contradictions, then why do so many people find it so compelling? Why do the problems seem both surmountable and worth surmounting?