The rage for order: Some new books on mind, language, science and culture
In: History of European ideas, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 271-280
ISSN: 0191-6599
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In: History of European ideas, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 271-280
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: History of European ideas, Band 11, Heft 1-6, S. 435-448
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 90, Heft 3, S. 741-742
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 361-362
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 74, Heft 6, S. 1486-1486
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
"Communication as work: we have recently experienced a profound transformation in the processes of production. While the assembly line (invented by Henry Ford at the beginning of the last century) excluded any form of linguistic productivity, today, there is no production without communication. The new technologies are linguistic machines. This revolution has produced a new kind of worker who is not a specialist but is versatile and infinitely adaptable. If standardized mass production was dominant in the past, today we produce an array of different goods corresponding to specific consumer niches. This is the post-Fordist model described by Christian Marazzi in Capital and Affects (first published in 1994 as Il posto dei calzini = The place for the socks). Tracing the development of this new model of labor from Toyota plants in Japan to the most recent innovations, Marazzi's critique goes beyond political economy to encompass issues related to social life, political engagement, democratic institutions, interpersonal relations, and the role of language in liberal democracies. This translation at long last makes Marazzi's first book available to English readers. Capital and Affects stands not only as the foundation to Marazzi's subsequent work, but as foundational work in post-Fordist literature, with an analysis startlingly relevant to today's troubled economic times."--Distributor's website
As a system that deals with social ordering, the law is very much a function of words, i. e. of language. Language is one of the most effective ways of communicating. One of the most cardinal principles of the common law criminal system is constituted in the maxim ignorantia juris non excusat (ignorance of the law is no excuse). In conformity with this principle, Tanzania`s Penal Code, the basic criminal law statute, assumes that everybody knows the law. Knowledge of the law presupposes `legal literacy`, which in turn means that the citizemy (or at least a reasonable portion of it) is capable of understanding what the law says. Hence, the law must speak in a language the people understand. Only then can they reasonably be expected to generally conduct themselves in accordance with the law.
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In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 2014, Heft 230
ISSN: 1613-3668
In: Culture crossroads: journal of the Research Centre at the Latvian Academy of Culture, Band 1, S. 48-53
ISSN: 2500-9974
In: Policy studies review: PSR, Band 13, Heft 3-4, S. 341
ISSN: 0278-4416
In: Journal of language and politics, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 327-331
ISSN: 1569-9862
In: Journal of language and politics, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 3-22
ISSN: 1569-2159
How are language, identity, & war related? This exploratory essay probes the conceptual & logical connections among these three elemental factors of human existence, offers thoughts about an alternative discourse, & takes a look at suggestive data regarding the tie between violence & identity. I posit that who we are, what we say, & when we fight are inseparable from one another. In this argumentative essay, language is seen as forming a nucleus of identity, identity as being forged in conflict, & discourse marking our path to, through, & out of war & peace. Abating identity threats through identity-affirming discourse may, I conclude, be the best & most lasting tool towards peace. 1 Table, 52 References. Adapted from the source document.