Gramsci frames critical consciousness as needing a patient inventory of one’s historical traces

Evidence

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is “knowing thyself” as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory … Therefore it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 267

Categorization

• XREF: Gramsci’s actual passage sits in stark contrast to Singh’s reading of it as ecstatic sensation rather than an injunction to critical labor.