Matthew Boedy reflects on how we might respond to overnaming in academic life.
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A Response to Overnaming
After the fall, how then do we live? How then do we name?
Overnaming as The Fall
In this post I want to dive deeper into the original ‘scene of the crime’ for clues toward the character of the relationship between language and naming.
An Introduction to Naming
David [Dark] exposes that we assume names or labels can ‘take care’ of others. Names or labels can ‘solve’ mysteries, neutralize critics, and of course get us somewhere we want to go faster, hence the shortcut.