From: Zona Sur <ZonaSur-AT-aol.com> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 12:07:15 EDT Subject: No Subject RE: "grave essential meanings"--please, at the risk of sounding Luddite, crankish and/or flamish, WTF are "grave essential meanings?" For the life of me, I am trying to imagine a self-conscious, grass roots political movement using such terminology. The explanation of a "hybrid politics" in which people (... Nicaraguan Miskitu) "use, discard and partly use again discourses previously imbued with grave, essential meanings." , pardon me, doesn't seem to explain anything. As a gentle reminder of this sort of thing--our risking terminal jargon-ese, I keep the following over my desk: The role of the police is best understood as a mechanism for the distribution of nen- negotiably coercive force employed in accordance with the dictates of an intuitive grasp of situational exigencies. -Egon Bittner What the f____ does that mean? -Sargeant, Los Angeles Police Dept. How about a little--just a little?--effort on the communicative end of language (such as it is, this poor old tongue)? B. Mills --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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