"process", "practice", and "experiment" all sem difficult for people to
recognize as verbs and that may be relevant here?
"tact" and "maturity" are in my experience more likely to be encountered
among the working class than the bourgeouise?
tom
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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: Postmodern?/more baroque
> >Perhaps it might be useful to distinguish projection from teleology, from
> >normative standardisation before the fact. To have a project in mind is
to
> >have something one can expose to the contingencies of practice, to
> >"empirical guilt" to borrow a phrase. That is, vis a vis spontaneity,
it's
> >all very well to talk about being exposed to the contingent, but what
after
> >all is it that one is exposing?
>
>
> Something that one either was previously unaware of. Or something that one
> thought beneath notice. Or something that one would wish to disown.
>
> My position is of course far more complex than simple oppositions, but I
> don't have time to go into it (yet again) at the moment. A teaser: it's
> about process, not practice.
>
> Re: tact. I should have thought it would be obvious that I didn't mean
> good, normative, or appropriate manners (OED 2) but "a keen faculty of
> perception or descrimination..." (OED 1b).
>
> Mark
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