Kenneth McKendrick
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Is it the teachers?
Is it students?
And that kind of thing.
Like, what system does this serve?
It's a good question to ask.
The thing is that I find most interesting is dirt.
That's the thing I'm continually drawn to.
And dirt defined by Mary Douglas is matter out of place.
And it's the things that don't fit in.
It's the things that defy our categories.
It's the things that fall in between the crevices of how we view the world.
And so Dracula, in a sense, is dirt, matter out of place.
He doesn't belong anywhere, so they try to destroy him.
But the other thing is, sometimes the dirt is something that's like, wait a second, I can learn something from that.
And so in that sense, it's a villain that isn't very villainous.
I find that completely fascinating.
I find the permutations on matter out of place to be never-ending, because we all have limits.
We all have a horizon.
that we can't see beyond.
And other people have different horizons, right?