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Why does the talented student of writing stop? It is usually the imagination, turned to creating a story in which you are a failure, and all you have done has failed, and you are made out to be the fraud you’ve feared you are. You can imagine the story you might tell, or you can imagine this other story—both will be extraordinarily detailed, but only one will be something you can publish. The other will freeze you in place, in a private theater of pain that seats one. These writers were—are, in many cases—people who know how to write. What they don’t know is how to become unstuck. How to leave that theater they made for themselves, how to stop telling themselves the story that freezes them.
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
My conclusion, in short, is that a deeper analysis of power relations is possible – an analysis that is at once value-laden, theoretical and empirical. A pessimistic attitude towards the possibility of such an analysis is unjustified. As Frey has written (1971: 1095), such pessimism amounts to saying: ‘Why let things be difficult when, with just a little more effort, we can make them seem impossible?’
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
Moreover, the information society ideology conflates the concepts of information and knowledge (Lyotard 1986). Missing from the concept is the recognition that __information obtains meaning only through intellectual processing or manipulation.__
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
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