The humanities, forced to justify themselves on the enemy’s terms. In the enemy’s vocabulary. The humanities, forced to talk about transferrable skills. About the uses of the humanities in business. Abut their fostering of business-relevant communication skills.
The humanities can’t survive. Or if they do so, it’s only as a shell of themselves. As husk-history. As hollowed-out literature. As phantom history of art.
The conditions for the humanities have disappeared. We can see that. There’s no place for the humanities anymore.
Which means that it’s only now that the humanities can appear as such. In their perfectly uselessness. In their perfect superfluity.
Work in Progress 