I only recently noticed that Nosubject.com has been offline. For some time. My apologies. The site is now back online. August 2017. Islam has transformed into a floating signifier Our data suggest that the right-wing populist readings of Islam as a marker of cultural, and societal difference, have spilled over from the.
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Glaucon’s utterance—'All this I see'—is a paradigmatic figure of speech, not a literal knowledge-claim, which composes a prominent pattern of response to the words of others. 'I see what you mean,' 'I see it clearly now,' 'I’ve seen the light,' etc.—such a pattern of response pins abstract cognition to sensual particularity. Furthermore, the rhetorical/poetic category of imagery suggests similar principles of anchorage. Vividness, clarity, scope, proportionality, elegance, and other criteria for rhetorical excellence all imply firm grounding in the utilities and pleasures of sight.The prominence of that pattern or grounding may indeed imply a hegemony of vision over other sensory modes, but it does not perform a radical break from what Gadamer terms 'linguisticality' or what we typically refer to as the logos. Nor does it recommend the displacement of other ways of essentializing human subjectivity, e.g., homo faber, homo dialecticus, or 'man the symbol-using and misusing animal.' (Consider how much would be lost and how little would be gained if a definition such as 'the seeing animal' or the 'image-making and unmaking animal' were supplied.) Even Lacan’s insistence on the visual, his heavy investment in the relationship between imagery and desire, and his