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METHODICAL_BLUNDERS

                                             December 10, 2007
   I like the word "method",
   or at least I like the        METHOD
   *sound* of it, I like
   something about it's
   associations.

   ...but I sometimes suspect
   that it has baggage that I
   haven't yet hefted, certainly
   going back as far as the
   existentialists, perhaps as         There's a Sartre book
   far as Marx/Hegel?                  "Search for a Method".

       Tis a tricky                        SEARCH_FOR_A_SEARCH
       business,
       adopting a
       vocabulary by
       associations.


          An example:

          Some young folks
          on KPFA dropping       KPFA
          lines like "There
          is also the
          problem of black
          orientalism" as           A person unschooled in the
          though you're just        duck-speak of the moment
          supposed to know          might say something
          what that means.          like "anti-islamic sterotypes
                                    among black people"

          (I know enough to
          know that it's a
          reference to
          Edward Said, and         ORIENTALISM
          I know enough
          about that to
          know I don't
          want to adopt
          his terminology
          uncritically...)
                                             The vocabulary of intellectuals
                                             is not always an intellectual
                                             vocabulary.

                                                        JARRING

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