File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 154


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


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