“It is my contention that the problem is not that gender itself is simplistic, but that it is too clear-cut if we consider it in isolation. If we look for the ways in which gender divides the social world in two, it will appear that it imposes its uncomplicated order on social materials. But part of…”Tagged: Relational Taxonomies, Taxonomic Intersection
“The gender binary has force, in short, because it is reductive.”Tagged: Taxonomic Theory, Reductionism, Gender Norms, gender, Gender Classification
“As many different hierarchies simultaneously seek to impose their orders on us, they do not always align, and when they do collide, they are capable of generating more disorder than order. In fact, as they collide with other hierarchies and an array of other forms in social situations, hierarchies…”Tagged: Structure as a Means of Deconstruction, Show The Order So You Can Create Disorder
“The word hierarchy was first used in the sixth century CE, when it referred to levels of angelic choruses, but it soon came to be applied to the governance of the Church, to describe its strictly ordered levels of authority and subordination. Gradually, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth…”Tagged: Secularized Theology, Christian Religious Ordering, Secularization of Religious Concepts
“The word hierarchy comes from the Greek hieros, meaning ‘sacred,’ and arche, meaning ‘rule.”Tagged: Hierarchy, Word Origins, What Is A Hierarchy?, Etymology
“The form that best captures the experience of colliding forms is narrative.”Tagged: Narrative, The Complexity of Stories
“I have always thought, none of our research matters unless it is generalizable, unless we can learn something from it that has implications beyond its own time.”Tagged: Conservation, Generalities, Beyond Your Time, My Philosophy
“The best close readers are always attentive to many different forms at different scales operating at once.”Tagged: Attentive Readers, Advice for Reading, Exegesis, In Defense of Nuance, Complexity