This week, TheThe’s Infoxicated Corner will be hosting the essay panel All These Things Are True. This panel has been six months in the making, and I’m really excited to be able to share it with everyone. I will be publishing one essay per day, Monday through Friday, in which five panelists will share their views on both the positive and negative effects of rage and outrage in public intellectual discourse. The lineup is as follows:
Monday: Lynn Melnick’s “We the Riffraff: Why Feminism Needs Outrage, Focus, and Civility.”
Tuesday: Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie’s “On Prioritizing My Rage.”
Wednesday: Michael Simon’s “Some Things Never Change: Outrage and Persuasion in Online Literary Debate.”
Friday: Saba Razvi’s “All The Rage: The Fashion in Our Fury Is Little More than a Refusal to Engage.”
This panel is intended as a space for authors and readers to come together and carefully (re)consider their existing thoughts and attitudes regarding issues that are complex and generally difficult to navigate. I want their efforts, sincerity, and perseverance to be celebrated and honored. Constructive, thoughtful comments are absolutely most welcome in response to any and all of these pieces; however, everyone should remember that anger and cruelty are not the same thing. Anger may be involuntary, but aggression is a choice. To disrespect even one of these authors is to disrespect the entire project of this panel, and thus to disrespect everyone who has spent half a year working hard on it in order to offer something valuable to the world.
Please be mindful. Please enjoy.
Beatitudes,
Fox Frazier-Foley, Editor
