J. Danielle

A floating signifier is a symbol or concept whose meaning can shift depending on the perspectives and agendas of those interpreting it

In the West, modern museums evolved from so-called Cabinets of Curiosities, which typically displayed wondrous artifacts of the natural world—shells, fossils, plants and organisms—taken from their context and mounted inside. The natural world is sampled and split apart, studied and displayed.

One trouble with blogging is that people subscribe to the blog , rather than each post finding its own audience. This encourages lowest common denominator writing. In particular it creates a context in which depth is penalized

So, the trick is very simple: avoid saying “and then” (the two words to drop), and embrace “but” and “therefore” (the two words to adopt).

the Black migration that built racial enclaves that became microsites of political power.

What we think of as ​“traditional country” did not originate with white conservative men — far from it. And yet, as a consequence of marketing, that is the dominant perception people have of the genre: That it’s not made for everyone and that it stands not for combating disenfranchisement but for preserving it.