Words also change meanings, he notes. An icon used to be a religious painting from Eastern Europe.”Now it’s all ‘iconic moments.’ That seems to be the phrase,” Keen says.
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He highlights “the way a word like ‘deconstruction’ changes. I hear sports announcers say, ‘he deconstructed the defence.’ And it means nothing like what Derrida meant at all”; philosopher Jacques Derrida used the word in a book in 1967. (via vs)
