Why are ordinary people repeatedly calling for government officials to "speak human language" and "do human things"?
You can growl, bark, howl or even speak human! Figure out a setting for your world.
Even our culture and language has shifted – we speak about human or social "capital" and securitize everything from education to infrastructure to prison terms.
We speak about human or social "capital" and securitise everything from education to critical infrastructure to prison terms, a mark of our burgeoning "portfolio society".
Cinematic as it is, the novel does what only literature can and what only great literature will: forces us to assess the very vocabulary with which we speak of human experience.
They are worth fighting for not only by those to whom they are denied but, if we take seriously the obligation which is indicated when we speak of human rights, by the rest of us as well" (Luban 1980, 170).
Too often we speak of human beings as statistics.
But were they, strictly speaking, human?
"Technically speaking human rights apply to people.
