George Lakoff talks about The Political Mind
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 5:00 pm on 7/6/2008
Here at long last is the compilation of my Twitter notes from George Lakoff’s talk at the Bagdad in Portland on June 12, 2008, about his new book The Political Mind. I tweeted these all as quotes, but they aren’t exact, so if something here enrages you, check with me first on whether he actually said it or not. Also, I’ve had to edit this pretty heavily to make it make any sense at all, as Twitter apparently drops a lot of your messages when you make two pages’ worth in the space of 30 minutes or so.
Many thanks to Prof. Lakoff for coming to town, and to Powell’s Books for hosting the talk. (And if you haven’t, please take a gander at my summary of the first chapter of Lakoff’s germinal manifesto Don’t Think of an Elephant - it may help all this make sense if you aren’t familiar with his prior work.)
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