It is a blending thing I guess. One of the really scary things about modernity it its botchedness. I mean take, a story about less boys (ignore the effects of Chemicals), and look at the correlation between Boy and high energy (and so often high Chemical ) foods, and the number of Boys, and all of a sudden boys become assoicated with high energy diet. The story then becomes a biological truism, and Bingo Henry vIII was right to expect his hight status wife to produce men - why else did he feed them? Be are mediveal again!
or again take a french prejudice against the English, and a Muslim loathing of the excessive Christainization of the global culture (calendar, ect), and yo get the demand the the Muslims follow their own time system (not based on GMT). A demand which of course then flies in the face of globalization: which was possibly the point!
That is to Globalize is also to botch, or to pitch what is bothced against the very process in which it was created....What a fun place the world is!
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- The aim is these blogs is to give a practical series of examples and off the cuff pieces of analysis which fit in to a far larger scale project of making Philosophy Political. Why does this matter? Because as Foucault says, one of them oddities of thinking is the extra silent thoughts one thinks without knowing it - call them assumptions or prejudicesor what you like. My aim in the pieces here, but also on the website, is then to reweave these assumptions, or at least aim to show how they might be unpicked. Hence the importance of the dictionary which is by far the most important entry here, and really deserves a blog of its own (it is called noted on media language)...
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