Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Hence, what we have to do is find a way to begin our critique and our formulations from the bottom and not the top. We must try to begin concretely and not abstractly. The reason for this is to try to lessen the impact of the Linguistic Turn. Where there's abstractions, there's mapping, meaning, representation, non-correspondence, and linguistic vacuity. Although this seems strange, it can be done. We have no choice but to continue to live with language. Language is as essential as food. As long as we see our institutions as having been created by our democratic Constitution, we should be able to craft our political structures without the interference of the Linguistic Turn. 

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