glen - Just to let the thread fray down to nothing here, I do agree that we mostly agree... the big difference between Adams and Trump might be about self-awareness and openly "owning" this style of "communication" and what the utility/implication of it might be.
I appreciate your perspective on PoMo as being more (all?) about the qualities of the signalling focusing on power relations. To tie it back into the original topic, I think you are saying the spoken/written word is less authentic than actions, but might agree that in some view all of it is signalling? Or not. Your (re)schooling of me on registration/binding and Clustering/Classification/Categorization... <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5064928/difference-between-classification-and-clustering-in-data-mining#:~:text=Classification%20is%20a%20process%20of,correctly%20defined%20observations%20are%20available.> is a good reminder of what I should have known. I think the only remaining disparity is that I thought you imputed more semantics into "registration" than perhaps you do. As it is with all duals, each one is an alternate but full encoding of the other. The Utility, however, seems to be that shifting from one to the other helps to break our preconceived notions and expose some of our blind spots. A fully enlightened/astut observer might not need this distinction... foreground as background as foreground? - steve
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