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JIM JOHNSTONE

Language as Territory This is sharp, compressed, and politically loaded in only a few lines. It feels almost aphoristic — like something between poetry and critique. those who inherited the earth decided they’d inherited idiom. The Weight of “Idiom” The poem pivots on the word idiom . An idiom is not just language, but the accepted way of speaking, framing reality, defining what sounds “natural,” “civilized,” “correct,” or “true.” So the poem suggests that power does not stop at material inheritance — land, institutions, wealth, nationhood — but extends into control over meaning itself. Whoever “inherits the earth” also assumes authority over language. The brilliance is in the word “decided.” It implies this authority is not natural. It is asserted. Claimed. Imposed. Dominance & Discourse The poem therefore becomes about the relationship between dominance and discourse: colonial powers imposing their language, ruling classes defining “proper speech,” institutions determining legit...

LOVE AND REASON

1. Antiquity: love as madness… or ascent In ancient Greece, love already sits in tension with reason. In Symposium , Plato presents two sides of love: one as madness (irrational, destabilizing) another as a path upward—from desire for bodies to contemplation of pure Beauty So here, love is not simply opposed to reason. It begins as disorder, but can become a ladder toward truth. 2. Medieval courtly love: distance and impossibility In medieval Europe , especially in troubadour poetry, love becomes something else: distant often unattainable structured by longing rather than fulfillment Think of Francesco Petrarch and his love for Laura. Here, love is not irrational chaos—it is disciplined suffering. Reason doesn’t disappear; it organizes desire into ritual, poetry, and idealization. But there’s a twist: love intensifies precisely because it cannot be resolved rationally. 3. Early modern philosophy: reason tries to explain love With thinkers like Baruch Spinoza , love becomes something ...

PIERRE BORDIEU

estrutura, prática e ilusão 1. Pensar sob condição A obra de Pierre Bourdieu pode ser lida como uma tentativa sistemática de dissolver a ilusão da autonomia do sujeito. Contra a ideia de que pensamos a partir de uma interioridade livre, ele propõe que todo pensamento é situado — efeito de condições históricas, sociais e simbólicas que o tornam possível. Não se trata, contudo, de reduzir o indivíduo à estrutura, mas de compreender a relação tensa entre ambos: o sujeito age, escolhe, interpreta — mas o faz a partir de esquemas que não inventou. Pensar, nesse sentido, é sempre pensar sob condição. 2. Habitus: o mundo incorporado O conceito de habitus ocupa o centro dessa arquitetura teórica. Trata-se de um sistema de disposições duráveis, incorporadas ao longo da experiência social, que orienta percepções e práticas sem passar necessariamente pela consciência. O habitus não determina mecanicamente as ações, mas delimita o campo do possível. Ele produz regularidades sem recorrer a regras ...