post-post-colonial: operational mode at the point of exchange and interaction between social or cultural groups, subtly re-organizing and re-mapping the intruded group to gain its acceptance, obedience, economical benefits, etc
Thanks for the elaborated analysis. Looking at the word from the point of view of poiesis (and that's how it is romantically read by Duerden in the quotation below), dislection as opposed to collection goes through things without a centred idea of collecting something ("co-" assumes meaning, theme, idea, or personality as a sort of centre of gravitation), but rather "reading" them "with rigour and love".
"It comes from diligere, and so calls us to read with rigour and love, interpreting in charity (as Augustine urged); and etymologically it calls up a method of reading as dislegere (dis = away from; legere = to collect, gather, pick; wander through, follow, trace the footsteps; look at, read)"
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vlaskine commented on the word specificeps
A portmanteau word: specifics/species + princeps, the principal specimen of a species. Does not seem a very useful word, but hey, it's a palindrome!
March 27, 2011
vlaskine commented on the list vlaskine-s-list
post-post-colonial: operational mode at the point of exchange and interaction between social or cultural groups, subtly re-organizing and re-mapping the intruded group to gain its acceptance, obedience, economical benefits, etc
August 23, 2010
vlaskine commented on the word dislection
Thanks for the elaborated analysis. Looking at the word from the point of view of poiesis (and that's how it is romantically read by Duerden in the quotation below), dislection as opposed to collection goes through things without a centred idea of collecting something ("co-" assumes meaning, theme, idea, or personality as a sort of centre of gravitation), but rather "reading" them "with rigour and love".
July 28, 2009
vlaskine commented on the word advent-guard
First, I came across it as a typo. A kind of neo-conservative avant-garde, I guess.
July 28, 2009
vlaskine commented on the word dislection
"It comes from diligere, and so calls us to read with rigour and love, interpreting in charity (as Augustine urged); and etymologically it calls up a method of reading as dislegere (dis = away from; legere = to collect, gather, pick; wander through, follow, trace the footsteps; look at, read)"
Richard Y. Duerden, The Temporal and Spiritual Kingdoms: Tyndale's Doctrine and its Practice. - http://www.tyndale.org/Reformation/1/duerden.html
June 10, 2009
vlaskine commented on the word palimpsestuous
http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:0e9NPkFTon4J:www.uel.ac.uk/ccsr/documents/PhillipsPalimsestuousBehaviour.pdf+palimpsestuous&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a
May 13, 2009
vlaskine commented on the word cinematogramme
a self-sufficient cinematographic sequence, maybe very short or film-long
May 7, 2009
vlaskine commented on the word dislection
as opposed to collection
May 5, 2009
vlaskine commented on the word koanic
as an adjective to 'koan'
May 5, 2009