Abandoning federal micromanagement of education has a hidden benefit: helping to reinvigorate American democracy in an age of increasingly
anomic and media-driven politics.
By using the term fluent aphasia, Edwards claims to include all of the fluent aphasic syndromes (Wernicke's, conduction,
anomic, and transcortical sensory), but really only presents examples of Wernicke's aphasia.
Agamben follows Benjamin here and suggests that, because the state of exception is the '
anomic' space from which any legal order emerges at all, it is no longer even possible to return to liberal democracy: 'From the real state of exception in which we live, it is not possible to return to the state of law, for at issue now are the very concepts of "state" and "law"' (SE 87).
For example, McNeil and colleagues applied Lexical-Semantic Activation Inhibition Treatment (L-SAIT) to retrieval of verbs, nouns, and adjectives with a participant with
anomic aphasia [11].
In line with the point above about daydreams having the dual effect of enhancing both resistance and adjustment by workers to the dictates of work, Sitas argues, drawing from his previous research findings on black workers in South Africa, that they (black workers) responded to the
anomic and alienating workplace pressures through defensive combinations which in turn gave rise to the cultural formations with definitive influence on identities, behaviour and practice.
The book tries to hagiographize Thomas, an
anomic writer of little renown, beforehand, into death's equivalent of Ring Lardner, the famed sportswriter, or H.L.
Nonetheless, the accompanying detailed discussions on violence in everyday life--as entertainment, or as
anomic expressions of humiliation or stress--communicates the author's grim impressions of our psychological selves.
As the nihilism of that market becomes more visible, and as its
anomic effect on Western life is shown up by the levels of solidarity and meaning visible in cultures--Islamic, Hindu and others--that retain a religious dimension (whatever else they may lack) there is an ever-shriller attempt to impose a Christian god on a culture that is economic-ally dependent on the unbounded manufacture and pursuit of desire--however violent, pornographic and exploitative that desire may be.
The following four faculty centered themes were uncovered in the analysis: (1) oversight, (2) grades, (3) situational themes, and (4)
anomic themes.
It begins with what Deleuze and Guattari call the "
anomic." This "
anomic" is an "exceptional individual" (243), but it is not exceptional in the sense that it is absolutely outside the law of the group or existing community.
This judgement would seem to be implicit in Bonomi's characterization of post-Fordism as an
anomic condition in the Weberian sense:
anomic - socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"