M. A. King wrote:
>But I do like the
>word "colonization" to refer to what disciplinary appartuses* do to
>juridical apparatuses--how they leave all the trappings of the old
>apparatus standing, but make those trappings function completely
>differently.
Great point, and one that I've been playing with most recently.
>From my perspective what we have and are starting to notice more nowadays
is a metaphoric extension, what Kenneth Burke called a casuistic stretch.
What we mean by colonialism has certainly changed, but we dress up both
the old and whatever we take as it meaning now in quite different robes.
While the trappings of the old apparatus are left standing the
understanding of that apparatus doesn't necessarily change for many, that
is, if to our advantage, we sell something new as old, while as you say
functioning very differently (we can dress them up in the same robes).
I've been looking at how we remember colonialism in our age of
globalization, and how these new articulations play a masquerade, so
please excuse the tangential tone of this post. I do think the metaphor of
colonization can be used profitably, but we have to keep in mind what has
been happening to that term.
Regards,
N. Cordova
cordova@xxxxxxxxxxx
>But I do like the
>word "colonization" to refer to what disciplinary appartuses* do to
>juridical apparatuses--how they leave all the trappings of the old
>apparatus standing, but make those trappings function completely
>differently.
Great point, and one that I've been playing with most recently.
>From my perspective what we have and are starting to notice more nowadays
is a metaphoric extension, what Kenneth Burke called a casuistic stretch.
What we mean by colonialism has certainly changed, but we dress up both
the old and whatever we take as it meaning now in quite different robes.
While the trappings of the old apparatus are left standing the
understanding of that apparatus doesn't necessarily change for many, that
is, if to our advantage, we sell something new as old, while as you say
functioning very differently (we can dress them up in the same robes).
I've been looking at how we remember colonialism in our age of
globalization, and how these new articulations play a masquerade, so
please excuse the tangential tone of this post. I do think the metaphor of
colonization can be used profitably, but we have to keep in mind what has
been happening to that term.
Regards,
N. Cordova
cordova@xxxxxxxxxxx