binaristic

Much of the current discussion has become a binaristic Us v. Them approach that fosters just that.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

As I said, this is a recurrent theme in so-called internet feminism; my co-blogger Laura posted on the subject at The F Word only a few weeks ago (link here) which was in response to a post by Michelle at Lonergrrrl, which references the binaristic divide between men and women, with no mention of trans* or other gender variant people.

Space: the final frontier 2008

Had de Beauvoir known about gender dysphoria, perhaps her assertion that one is not born woman but becomes one would have been less binaristic, less dogmatic, less silencing.

So long and thanks for all the fish 2008

Much of the current discussion has become a binaristic Us v.

Darwin, Dawkins and I 2009

Subsequent commentaries seem for the most part to confirm and extend this fundamentally binaristic vision of Shelley's life and poetry as a mode of endless perceptual quest rather than of existential fulfillment in the eternally unfolding originative moment.

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

No one has the patience or the ability to think "okay – what would make things better over the long term?" that would entail addressing the root causes of crime, which sadly cannot be reduced to a simple, binaristic view of choice, i.e., "he chose to commit that crime, therefore lock him up."

7 CHS Students Beat, Urinate on Fellow Student at cvillenews.com 2002

You’re right, I stopped at season 3, but I still think that Locke deserves to be killed off, Sawyer might be more interesting if he laid off the nicknames and settled down domestically, somehow, and Ben, the worst example of unearned binaristic arbitrary writing, I bet the big phony can’t even talk with Jacob.

Matthew Yglesias » TV Show of the Decade 2009

Given the force of these binaristic wrasslings, as we might call them, it is not surprising to find a recent commentator, Tim Milnes, arguing that Shelley maintained a kind of "duplicity" regarding the entire question of epistemic centers: "like many modern

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007