Heterogeneous language games yield only patchy, local institutional determinism.

Evidence

If ‘there are many different language games - a heterogeneity of elements’ we have then also to recognize that they can ‘only give rise to institutions in patches - local determinism.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 331

Categorization

• XREF: Local determinism stands against Harvey’s own preference for a systemic, totalizing account of capitalism — a rival to periodization. — connects to: Social language games are heteromorphous with no common metaprescriptions — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 449; Postmodern society is a pragmatics of heterogeneous language games, not a Newtonian system. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 90; Utterance types function as rule-governed language games — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 139 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Introduces and defines Lyotard’s ‘local determinism’ as the institutional consequence of heterogeneous language games.

Broader Connections

• Systems like value and language must emerge all at once, not piecemeal #complicates (0.80)
• Institutionalized discursive practices can lose credibility and collapse #expands (0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 53