Mixed Metonymies: Mechanization and Culture
Meanings are malleable. Words bend and break under the stress of unintended use, abuse, or overuse. Like machine parts pushed past their limits, cogs stripped bare of their teeth, the language we use wears out, weakening the culture that carries it and our knowledge thereof. Aldous Huxley (1970) writes, “In the days before machinery men… Continue reading Mixed Metonymies: Mechanization and Culture