Tacit elements of 'Culture'

...I think along the same line as Spivak when she wrongly termed the world as a semiotic-field—which is continually tapped in the process of self-representation whether in writing or art making. She referred to the idea of ‘axiom’ which I’m re-appropriating within this discussion—ultimately; ‘axiom’ here refers to the implicit and tacit elements dynamically operating in one’s own social and cultural being. This is irrevocably in conformance to historical and cultural consciousness of a certain people—meaning ‘universal truths’ which is peculiar to and within a certain culture and which are also at work implicitly in our ways of understanding and re-presenting the world around us to ourselves as well in return to the world (the post-modern condition?). When I mentioned earlier Heidegger’s idea of the ‘dwelling’ in connection with the Tongan understanding of ‘fonua’, I was referring to the tacit and implicit elements at work in our understanding of culture. Heidegger always point to these tacit elements and our ignorance towards their significance as conditioned by history….

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