Word: whorfian
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...Savoir, the Dziga Vertov group show that, in both content and form, they have become the revolution: they draw from Wittgenstein, the Whorfian hypothesis, and Rousseau to begin unlearning the current culture at its roots. The collective attempt to show you the way both the language of words and the language of cinema have shaped us and what must be cha(lle)nged. The authority of See You at Mao stems from an accurate application of Marxian rhetoric to contemporary image, from an unpretentious sound-image montage, and from the use of the camera as Vertov's "Kine-Eye" which...
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