Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 09/02/2009 - 256 من الصفحات Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... begin to paint “them” as monstrous, superstitious, barbarian, ignorant, savage, inhuman, and then you can go to war against them.2 Think of the Serbians who were married to Croatians in what was once Yugoslavia, or of the Hutu and Tutsi ...
... begin in shaping our own lives, telling us that the essential thing is to “under- stand” the empire of force and “know how not to respect” it. Yet how are we possibly to do this? How can we recognize the empires of force al- ready at ...
... begin to see what happens when people successfully claim power over the lives of others , when an empire of force is created in language and in life , we should of course try to find ways to resist it in our con- duct : in our voting ...
... begin to control these languages, turning them to our purposes, rather than becoming their agents and slaves—which means learning to have confident purposes of our own in the first place. In all of this we need to ask what kinds of ...
... begin with silence: in one sense silence is necessary to all meaningful expression. Think of the silence that precedes the concert in an orchestra hall, or the lesser silences, called rests, that make up an essential part of the music ...
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