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We are bound to ancient metaphysical conventions that privilege object-oriented language.  Using ‘the’ definite article is a significant part of that style of thacting which I argue obscures much of what we want to understand about psychosocial processes.  Such psychosocial processes need language that will engage with those processes: a verb-oriented language.  This latter point I picked up from Norbert Elias.  In an attempt to extend his project I have been developing a style of writing for some time that does not use ‘the’.

 
September 30th, 2017
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