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i get tangled up sometimes if i try to bring too much stuff forward post to post---so i have to leave elements spread around the thread--even so, the posts sometimes get really really long--my apologies if this gets confusing.
----when i started rattling on about these articles, i made the parallel between folk like bin laden and the argument in the article wonderwench posted---i think both are on the same level.
-----second---i wasnt talking about how people might name themselves--i was talking about the domestic political function of arguments like the "clash of civilizations" argument--which i find to be untenable politically, dubious descriptively, and kind of funny morally (the bauman quote says it on on this level).
you "could" group people using any common feature--people who like hats, for example, could be the hat civilization, a vast diaspora of hat people....people who are left handed....proust seems to have thought that gay folk are a vast diaspora from sodom and gomorroah---you can in principle make categories that group any number of features--that is what categories/classifications do....whether that grouping has other effects...?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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