Term
Naming
used in 81 texts across the archive
“Naming is performative, like christening a ship or marrying a couple, activities that manifest the most basic social traditions. In a sense, that is what a tradition entails—a reciprocally constituting system of names.”
In use
“Naming is performative, like christening a ship or marrying a couple, activities that manifest the most basic social traditions.”
“Naming is the way the sovereign and his delegates (those who have been named by him) incorporate and authenticate institutions, authorities and practices.”
“Naming is also the most basic pedagogical act: nothing better marks the minimal hierarchy self-evident and modeled in any pedagogical act than saying “we’ll call this ______” Naming is the result of pedagogical practices of solicitation of the center.”
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