Comments on: Is Neil Jenman feeling a tad insecure? http://peterfletcher.com.au/2008/12/12/is-neil-jenman-feeling-a-tad-insecure/ Blogging, Facebook, Twitter and Fitness. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: lxvxjxnkie http://peterfletcher.com.au/2008/12/12/is-neil-jenman-feeling-a-tad-insecure/comment-page-1/#comment-49 lxvxjxnkie Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:34:00 +0000 http://peterfletcher.com.au/?p=371#comment-49 I think Jennan expressed himself crudely - there's an aspect of dominance in his confident pronouncement of the fact of Asian superstitiousness, and it's especially problematic because of the association drawn in Western culture between superstition and cultural primitiveness.<br/><br/>That said, some of your analysis is applicable to anything <i>at all</i> spoken at the level of culture; knowledge of cultures is not and could never be empirical and inevitably involves some of what Derrida called the unavoidable violence of speech.<br/><br/>Daniel I think Jennan expressed himself crudely – there’s an aspect of dominance in his confident pronouncement of the fact of Asian superstitiousness, and it’s especially problematic because of the association drawn in Western culture between superstition and cultural primitiveness.

That said, some of your analysis is applicable to anything at all spoken at the level of culture; knowledge of cultures is not and could never be empirical and inevitably involves some of what Derrida called the unavoidable violence of speech.

Daniel

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