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3:18am June 29, 2014

madeofpatterns:

Avoiding obnoxious words like praxis as radical neurodiversity liberation praxis.

If you’re thinking of the inertia article, it was a pun.  We didn’t even realize people used “praxis” that way back then.  "Praxis" is a medical word used to mean, roughly, “motor planning”, so “from theory to praxis” felt like a medical pun on “from theory to practice”.

Notes:
  1. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    Oh okay. I was moderately embarrassed when I found out that people actually used the word praxis that way. Because I...
  2. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I wasn’t. Was thinking of this disability theology book I’m trying to read.
  3. nicocoer said: *cackles*
  4. ajax-daughter-of-telamon said: the word praxis makes me think of a very large, long-legged insect for some reason.
  5. alliecat-person said: I’m willing to concede that some super-fancy terms have their use, but what the hell is the point of using “praxis”?
  6. slashmarks said: what does praxis even mean? I’ve always read it as one of those academic filler words