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Speaking and Thinking with Helen Joyce

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The Postmodern Turn: How Speech Constructs Reality

Postmodernism is the view that speech constructs reality rather than describes it. If your words are simply too unmoored from reality bad things will happen or else they won't make any difference my thing is like just don't force other people's words I say any stupid thing you want you can be as dumb as you want but don't silence and that's a bit of writing advice I give to peopleDon't try to write well because if you try to writewell you're already censoring yourself as you write just try to write don't get it right get it written James Tarver said and then you can edit so after the conference we had an interesting conversation about this person who calls me

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