The last time Sedgwick’s essay on paranoia came up we talked about her account of paranoia as a process of endless repetition. This comes from later in the essay, as part of a discussion of how “paranoia is characterized by placing, in practice, an extraordinary stress on the efficacy of knowledge per se—knowledge in the form of exposure,” and how “paranoia for all its vaunted suspicion acts as though its work would be accomplished if only it could finally, this time, somehow get its story truly known.”
