About the same time that Machiavelli wrote The Prince (1513), he was also writing a very different book, Discourses on Livy (or, more precisely, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy [Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio]).
But if he indeed thinks and operates within a hermetic worldview that swings between poles of disaster and salvation, we are in a very different universe of discourse.
As we learned in 2007, when the mainstream media was adamant that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee, if you take talking points with a grain of salt and start watching the grassroots activists operating in the netroots and emerging rightroots, you start to get a very different look at the future of political discourse in this country.
The discourse of diversity provides a very different starting point for understanding the development of professional self-identity.
And secondly, that we understand as consumers, audience, players, that gaming's rule set for plot-driving discourse, persuasive prose and affecting interactions is a very different beast to that written down in books or enunciated from a stage.
And secondly, that we understand as consumers, audience, players, that gaming's rule set for plot-driving discourse, persuasive prose, and affecting interactions is a very different beast to that written down in books or enunciated from a stage.
Civil society's silence on the issue of human rights was likely a strategic decision to frame their discourse to suit the Standing Committee's needs.t Perhaps more striking is the contrast between the Liberal and Conservative Government's discourse on human rights, which appear to be rooted in a very different conception of the realization of the right to health.
A very different experience.
A very different proposition.
