Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 pages 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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... thought and imagination ; we establish characters for ourselves and relations with others ; we act upon the materials of meaning that define our culture , sometimes replicating them , sometimes transforming them , for good or ill . The ...
... thought is that if we destroy enough of them, in a hideous enough way, those in charge of the military that does present such a threat will lose their will to fight. We are killing civilians by fire to persuade generals and politi ...
... thought to be dining. In the reports I read of this event, the only topic considered was the question whether we had succeeded in killing him. I saw no reflection of the fact that we had surely killed other people who were having dinner ...
... thought and imagination at work in our heads and hearts that make up an empire of force with which it is a duty, a necessity, to come to terms if we ourselves are to realize our own best capacities of mind and feeling. My question is ...
... thought and feeling , even as very young children , that supported such horrors as mass murder and hereditary racial enslavement . The American language of race , from which none of us in this country can escape , is its own version of ...
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