•We respond to material conditions with
our imagination;
•Imagination is grounded in material
conditions;
•Material conditions are shaped by
imagination actualized in discourse;
•We imagine our responses to
material conditions before we actualize them;
•We think and act according to a conceptual system we also imagine;
•We think and act according to a conceptual system we also imagine;
•We do not imagine things out of the blue, but from
our experience and our language;
•Our language and our conceptual systems
are metaphorically grounded;
•The analysis of metaphors provides us
with the closest of readings;
•We do not have to stick all the time to
close reading or contextualizing;
•We should be able to alternate between reading from up close and taking
a few steps back to get a sense of context;
•To think through metaphors is to think
by analogy [explicit or implicit];
•Analogies also set comparisons and contrasts between the
old and the new;
•New conditions and experiences demand
that we imagine new metaphors;
•Old metaphors don’t die just because the
conditions that created them no longer exist;
•Metaphors, old and new, structure and
re-structure our discourse;
•Discourse is actualized in political
action, including policy;
•The way we act and the way we conceive
of things never
coincide
perfectly;
•We always say less and say more than
what we meant to utter.
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