So you’re only 14, and you’re already skeptical toward the “grand narratives” of modernity ...

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JENNY JONES: We have some pictures of young Alex. …

We see snapshots of 14-year-old ALEX reading Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s “Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.” The AUDIENCE oohs and ahs.

ALEX: We used to go to a friend’s house after school — y’know, his parents were never home — and we’d read, like, Paul Virilio and Julia Kristeva.

JENNY JONES: So you’re only 14, and you’re already skeptical toward the “grand narratives” of modernity, you’re questioning any belief system that claims universality or transcendence. Why?

ALEX: I guess — to be cool.

JENNY JONES: So, peer pressure?

ALEX: I guess.

JENNY JONES: And do you remember how you felt the very first time you entertained the notion that you and your universe are constituted by language — that reality is a cultural construct, a “text” whose meaning is determined by infinite associations with other “texts”?

ALEX: Uh, it felt, like, good. I wanted to do it again.

The AUDIENCE groans.