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  • The ansr to my question most likeley involves ” disruptive intelligence”
    by Whitlock and Bronski http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/30022-how-hate-lets-us-off-the-hook

    Lewis Hyde uses the phrase “disruptive intelligence” in Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art,
    an exploration of trickster-like mythologies and cultural expression.
    He argues that tricksters using disruptive insight are boundary
    violators and cultural agents who rip the lid off and expose “inflated
    righteousness” to show the cruelties often hidden within. Even as it
    exposes hypocrisy contradictions, disruptive insight opens up space for
    new possibility.
    It’s the significance of this energy that interests us. “Disruptive
    intelligence” is, by its nature, elusive. It resists description, taking
    any number of forms depending on the reality of what it is disrupting.
    This chapter went through numerous revisions because we kept giving
    perfectly good examples that, precisely because they were concrete,
    limited the enormous scope of the idea. Disruptive intelligence’s energy
    does not derive from cogent political argument and organizing alone.
    Basically, it can be anything – a book, poem, direct question, gesture,
    glance, protest sign, slogan, ironic stance – that pulls the reader,
    listener, audience, person on the street out of their often-passive
    embrace of the accepted reality.
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