Metaphors materially shape intellectual and political practice.

Evidence

We never connected with that rising historic movement; it was a metaphoric exercise. Nevertheless, metaphors are serious things. They affect one’s practice. I’m trying to redescribe Cultural Studies as theoretical work which must go on and on living with that tension. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the broader claim in cultural theory that language/conceptual framing is constitutive, not merely descriptive. — connects to: The entire human conceptual system operates metaphorically, not just literary language. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 493; Imagining cultures built on alternative root metaphors teaches students that current ones are chosen. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 649; Shifting metaphors converted restraint on exploiting the earth into sanction for it — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 78 (+17 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The entire human conceptual system operates metaphorically, not just literary language. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 493; Imagining cultures built on alternative root metaphors teaches students that current ones are chosen. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 649; Shifting metaphors converted restraint on exploiting the earth into sanction for it — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 78 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Family metaphors structure modern political worldviews, with conservatives embracing a strict father model #exemplifies (0.95) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 199
• A single metaphorical frame can shift which policies people support #exemplifies (0.93) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 385
• Winter insists that ‘the importance and ubiquity of imaginative processes such as metaphor undermine the Wittgensteinian claim that there is no more to meaning than its performative significance… #complicates (0.78)
• Elementary foundational ideas grow into political pillars through innumerable repetition #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 651