tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683962756307507274.post4397372477580274523..comments2022-12-17T23:22:37.203-08:00Comments on Evolution and Literature: Imitation of the OtherTroy Camplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683962756307507274.post-3983945105291421252012-12-12T07:29:10.495-08:002012-12-12T07:29:10.495-08:00Not sure why you're talking about "power ...Not sure why you're talking about "power dynamics" here. But mutual trade is not an example of "power dynamics." Telling you unless you do something good for me, I'll do something bad to you, and having the ability to use force to enforce it, is. I don't make the postmodernist mistake to think everything is power.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683962756307507274.post-72654930637191970032012-12-12T07:25:00.324-08:002012-12-12T07:25:00.324-08:00"Power dynamics" sounds to me like the p..."Power dynamics" sounds to me like the perfect post hoc- propter hoc all-purpose explanation of everything. How do we know someone has power to do something? By the fact that they do it. How do we know someone does not have the power to do something? By the fact that they don't. I.e. "power" is a totally unnecessary middleman. Its appeal, of course, is that it can be equated with coercion, and thus arouse all the rage we feel against coercion. Thus for people who don't achieve anything, there is the comfort of believing that real achievers got their way by evil violence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683962756307507274.post-11437848281745080952012-12-11T00:36:54.594-08:002012-12-11T00:36:54.594-08:00The power dynamics of child imitating a parent or ...The power dynamics of child imitating a parent or youth imitating an elder assumes that the first will one day occupy the position of the latter in the role of being the subject of imitation. <br /><br />The power dynamics of racial or gendered appropriations cannot be confused/ compared with cultural appropriation and none of these can be compared to generational appropriation. <br /><br />if the child appropriated a skill from his parent... in the cultural sense.. the child would then kill the parent. this is what happend with racial/gender/cultural appropriation. Instead of giving credit for where the influence comes from... most agents of this vile form of appropriation pretend they came up with it on their own, erase the source and reep/hoard the benefits.<br /><br />There is nothing wrong with cross cultural exchange but this should not be confused with theft. pure theft. and theft doesn't build bridges. It continues a cycle of marginalization and disproportionate distribution of resources...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com