(something like): every utterance has 2
agenda:
Taking Care of Business (TCB)
and
Negotiating Relationship (NR)
Taking Care of Business is the text of
any exchange, say.
Negotiating Relationship: contextual.
A figure/.background dynamic .
be the only courses for whom
is actually text and the texts
tokens for context.
This is something LIKE making
Negotiating Relationship (NR)
the
and Taking Care of Business (TCB):
Negotiating Relationship (NR).
A collapse, conflation, a potential
A foolishness of which I am somewhat aware.
....................NR
TCB TCB
................(whole-y grail)
Reversing the Figure Background
RELATIONSHIP
so that figure becomes background
and background becomes figure.
incommensurate (can’t assess either in
terms of the other without doing
to both. Need we argue?).
On the other hand: the opposition is
complementary & “whole-istic”
Nu Agers might say.
It’s an open question, whether in fact it
possible to manipulate the Negotiation
Relationship as a Taking Care of
agenda. Can I control
manipulate
I’m asking.
The Weather?
The Economy?
Deep Ecology & Meta-Sustainability?
xxxooo, Alan Greenspan
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