Term
Literacy
used in 116 texts across the archive
“literacy is invented so as to refer to realm of the implicit in framing the speech of others. This reduces the intensity of imitation and allows for the emergence of a space of de-escalated imitation that we can pretend isn’t imitation at all.”
In use
“Literacy is crucially involved in the shift in the heroic narrative from the “Promethean” (and doomed) struggle against the center to the victim who exemplifies what we can now see as the unholy, even Satanic, violence of the imperial center.”
“For this purpose the metalanguage of literacy is deployed: relations between nominalizations deposit in the scene what might otherwise be looked for in the disciplinary scene of representation.”
“The metalanguage of literacy is an intellectual or ideological bulwark to the state, while also providing the material for decentering power by appealing to transcendent models to which the sovereign must adhere.”