Image via Wikipedia All attempts to listen to nature are social constructions-except one. Even the most radical postmodernist must acknowledge the distinction between physical existence and non-existence. As I have said, postmodernists accept that there is a physical substratum to…
la Farge 2009
Image via Wikipedia Paul la Farge has a review of Littell’s The Kindly Ones in the newest issue of The Believer. Criticized as too encyclopedic and too sadistic (the protagonist is an SS officer that killed his mother and stepfather,…
Conquergood 1992
Scott devastates hegemonic incorporation theories based on their methodological error of collecting evidence from spurious sources. First, secrecy and coded conduct are major resources of resistance that by their very nature are invisible in the public transcript: The goal of…