are you disagreeing? what _are_ you saying? why should we agree with these people?
I wrote: > I don't think that Bush thinks of himself as a capitalist pawn > pursuing capitalist policies. > ================ Ian writes: > Description > > Descriptions of descriptions > > Contested descriptions of descriptions of descriptions > > > .............. > > "From a rhetorical standpoint, a description is a verbal > representation of > some object to some audience, such that the speaker is able > to change the > audience's attitude toward the object without changing the > object itself. > Thus, the trick for any would-be describer is to contain the > effects of > her discourse so that the object remains intact once her discourse is > done. In descriptions of human behavior, this is often very > difficult to > manage, as the people being described, once informed of the > description, > may become upset and proceed to subvert the describer's > authority." [Steve > Fuller] > > > "'perceptual fault lines' run through apparently stable > communities that > appear to have agreed on basic institutions and structures > and on general > governing rules. Consent comes apart in battles of > description. Consent > comes apart over whose stories to tell." [Kim Scheppele] >
