I've been silently repeating Rorty-ian mantras non-stop while reading this thread.
From the pragmatist perspective, there's no need to describe anything as non-representational, because thought and language themselves are never representational. Calling one thing "representational" and another "non-representational" arguably says nothing about their respective uses or capacities. The distinction seems rooted in other pernicious philosophical distinctions, e.g. mind/body, appearance/reality. This is not to say, however, that I don't value the NRT/ORT intervention.
I wonder, is the term "humanistic" in geography still generally associated with phenomenology? I've always thought it would be nice if it weren't so and we could instead have more work evincing the appealing (to me) stylistic tendencies of humanistic geographies tinged with the pragmatists' evasion of epistemology. Is that a thing? I believe Dr. Jones has done some work I see as falling along these lines, but he may resent that association.
Yours in the pursuit of absolute truth and ultimate reality,
R.
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