Yeah, I've seen it crop up a few times in my anthropology coursework, and mostly in the epistemological context you mention.
*grin* Thank you -- you know, I have no idea whether I prefer my kink writing or my gen writing on the whole, because I have such different agendas with each. And that's probably the subject of an entire post in and of itself, so I'll try to lay off the social theory here except to say that yes, that context was definitely present while I was writing this.
...I was also finishing this fic up just as Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, and I think a lot of that context crept in; I do think there's been a tremendous shift in attitude towards the United States (and I hope to god it'll remain so), and while that is in and of itself significant after the past eight years, contained within that is a call to action -- and you know, I think that kind of call ultimately brings out the best of what America can be.
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Date: 2009-10-21 11:49 pm (UTC)*grin* Thank you -- you know, I have no idea whether I prefer my kink writing or my gen writing on the whole, because I have such different agendas with each. And that's probably the subject of an entire post in and of itself, so I'll try to lay off the social theory here except to say that yes, that context was definitely present while I was writing this.
...I was also finishing this fic up just as Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, and I think a lot of that context crept in; I do think there's been a tremendous shift in attitude towards the United States (and I hope to god it'll remain so), and while that is in and of itself significant after the past eight years, contained within that is a call to action -- and you know, I think that kind of call ultimately brings out the best of what America can be.