Re: quick question

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

are you disagreeing? what _are_ you saying? why should we agree with these people? 


I wrote:
> I don't think that Bush thinks of himself as a capitalist pawn
> pursuing capitalist policies.

> ================

Ian writes: 
 
> Description
> 
> Descriptions of descriptions
> 
> Contested descriptions of descriptions of descriptions
> 
> 
> ..............
> 
> "From a rhetorical standpoint, a description is a verbal 
> representation of
> some object to some audience, such that the speaker is able 
> to change the
> audience's attitude toward the object without changing the 
> object itself.
> Thus, the trick for any would-be describer is to contain the 
> effects of
> her discourse so that the object remains intact once her discourse is
> done. In descriptions of human behavior, this is often very 
> difficult to
> manage, as the people being described, once informed of the 
> description,
> may become upset and proceed to subvert the describer's 
> authority." [Steve
> Fuller]
> 
> 
> "'perceptual fault lines' run through apparently stable 
> communities that
> appear to have agreed on basic institutions and structures 
> and on general
> governing rules. Consent comes apart in battles of 
> description. Consent
> comes apart over whose stories to tell." [Kim Scheppele]
>