Representation: ever since the linguistic tern (1940) in humanities theory. Linguistic tern: how we understand the world around is – semiotics. This would account for what the world means. Meaning became more important than anything else.
Language is inadequate to account for the world. And if we think it can, then it means we are putting ourselves at the centre of the world.
We are not the centre of the universe, nor top of the food chain. The world exceeds us in every possibility.
For every claim we have made about why we are special, science has come along and disproved us.
If we only think the world makes sense according to our immediate world, then that is linguistic imperialism
Things in the world have their own agency and capacity to act – we can’t control them nor are we in charged of them.
50 years ago we thought we were in charged of the environment. We thought that the planet existed for us and its resources were there for us to use. Now we realise that that was a silly way of viewing the world. Today it might be something else i.e. farming animals to butcher them. Maybe in 50 years time, we will look back and think that we acted barbaric.
Television is headed in the direction of opera. It will become more expensive to produce, will be funded from different areas etc.