Not naturalism, indeed, but surrealism: Marguerite Kahrl's funny "Conversation With a Luddite" ensconces a little reproduction of the Unabomber's cabin in a papier-mache tree; from it issues the recorded discourse of someone with complicated anti-modernist theories.
But in contemporary political discourse, to say someone is a socialist -- just as to say that someone doesn't love America -- is not to make a claim of any substance, but instead it's to imply that they are fundamentally different, dangerously strange and inexplicably hostile toward the rest of us.
But it is even more offensive in public discourse, coming from someone who became the president of a major country.
It may even be that the tea party's outsized presence has galvanised some Democrats: for everyone who's tutting over the decline of polite discourse, there's someone who's looking at the tea party and noting that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
More fundamental, however, is the difficulty in clarifying whether the discourse within which someone located her/himself prompted certain actions or whether having acted in a particular way, the person adopted a particular discourse through which to interpret their actions [ 27].
"I will fall asleep with my face in my dinner plate if someone starts discoursing to me about the academic distinction between true mastery and mere craft".
If a public intellectual is someone who can discourse knowledgeably on a wide variety of subjects, then Anthony Julius is surely one of England's leading public intellectuals.
Words will always – and especially now when the particularly unforgiving and clamorous world of social media dominates immediate discourse – betray an opinion that someone, somewhere, perhaps more shocked and raw than the writer, will find hurtful or offensive.
Crowley isn't exactly a household name, which made me wonder, if modern day elections really are more like reality TV than serious political discourse, couldn't they find someone with a little bit more profile?
Egyptology has as its international spokesman someone for whom all discourse tends toward propaganda.
