Thanks Lou. Actually, there's a term for this sort of word creation -- it's called "Joycing," after Joyc's practice in Finnegan's Wake. Lewis Carroll also called them portmaneau words.
The book sounds like a gigantic conspiracy theory. For over a century some radicals and socialists have indulged in the daydraem that that advanced capitalism created a context in which 'capital' could consciously create its world, because if the capitalist world was a product of conscious planning by a identifiable group of agents, then those agents could be persuaded to create socialism for us. It's the Myth of Built-In Progress carried to the brink of lunacy. If you don't hit it won't fall. Carrol Louis Proyect wrote: > > Carrol Cox wrote: > > > > Jonathan Nitzan wrote: > >> Brennan, Jordan. 2009. Review of "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and > >> Creorder." Canadian Journal of Political Science 42 (4, December): > >> 1057-1058. > > > > What in the world does *Creorder* mean? > > That's a neologism, a combination of "create" and "order". Their book > states "Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of > dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society." > > I bet I can make up a cool neologism myself, even though I ain't got a > PhD. How's this? Flutulence. That's a combination of flute and > flatulence, generally the product of eating red lentils and red cabbage > on an empty stomach. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
