Scale

Scale in its practice in humanist reason is thus both a concept and a metaconcept, insofar as it represents to us not only a theory of objects and a theory analyses, but an argument for the relation between objects and analyses, grounded in the claim that they both “have” scale.

charisma required distance from the audience.

Scale suggests that any object appears different—or does not even exist at all—if you change the scale of perception.

It is also a broader cultural sensibility composed out of the steady drip-drip of bureaucratic acts, a loose constellation of practices and postures that is diffused throughout society via the legal and executive branches of the modern state. In short, suspicion is less heroic and more humdrum and routinized than we might think.

Liberalism in the sense I am using it refers to the rule of law, a system of formal rules that restrict the powers of the executive, even if that executive is democratically legitimated through an election.

scale requires technological adjuncts, because scale is only produced when we move beyond the perceptual limits of the human body.

because scale deals with perspective, it is intertwined with notions of the subject, experience, consciousness, and interpretation.

Supposedly mature adults with no sense of scale or proportionality.”