With #Derrida's understanding (cf. White Mythology) of #metaphors, that all must be metaphor or nothing could be metaphor, and Barthes conception of mythologies, we may conclude that everytime we claim that something 'is not just a metaphor', we are creating an arrangement of mythologically privileged and purified metaphors.
Good to know for reflecting upon one's own part in the reproduction of common mythologies and their myths.
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