I love this post. You show just how pervasive frame control is and how we are always and already caught up in it, regardless of conscious intent. You show how communication is already flooded with "secondary effects," affecting the social context beneath our noses. Your thinking, as I see it, intersects with Austinian Speech Act Theory and Anscombe's Intention. Like the speech act theorists, you show how communication is not merely an intentional transmission of abstract ideas or propositions between minds via the use of standardized symbols (a la the "descriptive fallacy"), but rather, a context-sensitive means of affecting the social context with words, such as instituting social norms (e.g. exercitives), creating... (read more)
I love this post. You show just how pervasive frame control is and how we are always and already caught up in it, regardless of conscious intent. You show how communication is already flooded with "secondary effects," affecting the social context beneath our noses. Your thinking, as I see it, intersects with Austinian Speech Act Theory and Anscombe's Intention. Like the speech act theorists, you show how communication is not merely an intentional transmission of abstract ideas or propositions between minds via the use of standardized symbols (a la the "descriptive fallacy"), but rather, a context-sensitive means of affecting the social context with words, such as instituting social norms (e.g. exercitives), creating... (read more)