[lbo-talk] Vive Jacques, Le Moor ! Vive la differance !

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 27 14:03:18 PDT 2004


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> > Revolution is polysemous, no?
> >
>
> Indeed. It means anything the speaker/reader wants it to mean, that is,
> nothing in particular.
>

In other words, Wojtek accepts the New York Post version of Derrida, and adopts it as his own.

This is true of almost any important word -- context & the speaker's practice narrow it, however. In the case of Wojtek, the speaker's practice reveals that every word he uses has only one meaning: EVeryone in the world except Wojtek is an asshole.

Carrol



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