Article: Abject lesson. (film 'The Addiction')

For a while, as you may or may not remember, the abject was having its little moment on the intellectual catwalk, putting in its appearance as an esthetic-slash-ontological category. Confronted with the apparent impossibility of almost everything, we eagerly embraced the obvious Way Out - and became the losers we had always known we always were. But this time, with pride. Still, fashion is fashion, intellectual or otherwise, it can't exist if it's not fickle, and now the abject is well on its way to becoming abject itself. It's looking more and more like last year's glad rags, just like anything else, just like all of us; soon, it may not even be a career option anymore.

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