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interpellate [ɪnˈtɜːpɛˌleɪt] vb
(Law / Parliamentary Procedure) (tr) Parliamentary procedure (in European legislatures) to question (a member of the government) on a point of government policy, often interrupting the business of the day [from Latin interpellāre to disturb, from inter- + pellere to push] interpellation n interpellator n How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In our reading of the rendering of whale into oil, we interpellate more recent forms of human and animal expropriation, cultural practices with which we are all so familiar that it is no longer necessary to discriminate the circumstances or causes of past acts of violence but merely to cite them, along with all practices that might be interpreted as metaphorical renderings of life to thing, to trigger a reflexive disgust. If he is correct in his assessment that "no political movement will be entirely exempt from populism, because none will fail to interpellate to some extent 'the people' against an enemy, through the construction of a social frontier," then the failure of the postpolitical utopia means that populism is here to stay. Chapter 5 takes up the way in which George Herbert, in The Temple, makes similar use of the language and concepts of usury to interpellate the confusion of subject and object as well as the alienation of self caused by commercialization and its "fetishization of the signifier" (141). |
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