Representation and textuality can literally determine life and death, not merely shape discourse
Evidence
The concept of life is the point of intersection for these two opposed lines of thought which provide the framework for the fundamental decisions of modern life. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 845 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Representation itself determines who is acknowledged as dying and how; Representation itself can be a site of life and death in struggles like AIDS; Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018 (+3 more)
Related
- The concept of life frames the fundamental decisions of modern existence (similarity 0.85)
- Representation itself is a site where lives, desire, and politics are won or lost (similarity 0.82)
- Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life (similarity 0.81)
- Representation itself can be a site of life and death in struggles like AIDS (similarity 0.81)
- Form-versus-life conflict anticipates modern structure-versus-antistructure debates (similarity 0.80)
- Attempts to purify language of metaphor are doomed and futile (similarity 0.79)
- Birth and death are immanent extensions of life itself. (similarity 0.79)
- Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Representation itself determines who is acknowledged as dying and how
#expands(0.85) - The concept of life frames the fundamental decisions of modern existence
#expands(0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 845 - Representation itself can be a site of life and death in struggles like AIDS
#exemplifies(0.80) - Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension
#complicates(0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837 - Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018