Accumulate

Accumulate Value

Accumulate Weight

Anchor

Are Better The Second Time

Are Easier To Build Than Maintain

Are Hard To See From Inside

Are Mostly Expectations

Are Mostly Memory

Become Harder To Replace

Become Infrastructure

Become More Interesting The Longer You Look

Become More Interesting With Age

Become More Real Through Repetition

Become More Real With Age

Become More Valuable After Use

Become More Valuable Together

Become More Valuable When Shared

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Real Through Repetition

Become Somebody’s Responsibility

Become Someone Else’s Problem

Become Stronger When Shared

Become Themselves Through Use

Become Visible Through Use

Borrow Authority

Borrow Authority From Age

Borrow Time

Carry Authority

Carry Memory

Change Hands

Change Their Meaning Over Time

Circulate

Collect Dust

Come From A Cradle

Continue

Creak

Create Attachment

Create Belonging

Create Common Ground

Create Context

Create Continuation

Create Continuity

Create Depth

Create Depth Over Time

Create Echoes

Create Expectations

Create Identity

Create Memory

Create Momentum

Create Momentum Across Generations

Create More Than They Consume

Create Permanence

Create Predictability

Create Stability

Decay

Depend On Being Renewed

Depend On Quality More Than Timing

Echo

Endure

Exist Mostly In Consequence

Exist Mostly In Their Consequences

Exist To Be Carried

Extend Memory

Grow While Standing Still

Harden

Have Long Memories

Have To Be Carried Across

Improve By Being Passed Along

Improve By Being Slightly Broken

Improve By Having A History

Improve Through Repetition

Improve Through Waiting

Improve With Use

Invite Interpretation

Invite Return

Invite Stewardship

Leave Residue

Live In An Almanac

Make Good Ancestors

Make Good Descendants

Make Knowledge Durable

Make The Past Reachable

Mark Time

Mature

Need Belief

Need Context

Need Cultivation

Need Defense

Need Interpretation

Need Interpretation To Exist

Need Protection

Need Renewal

Need Winding

Occupy The Same Space Differently

Only Exist Because We Agreed

Only Get Noticed When They Break

Organize Life

Organize Memory

Organize Time

tradition

is the way in which the dead govern the living.

The dead govern the living. Auguste Comte

is a provocative force rather than a conserving force. It is the background that instigates all inquiry. It conditions one's knowledge, yes, but such that it hands down interests, prejudices, questions, and problems that incite knowledge. One cannot live in tradition passively. One must apply it to one's own.

tradition serves as the condition of one's knowledge, the background that instigates all inquiry, one can never start from a tradition-free place. A tradition is what gives one a question or interest to begin with. Second, all successful efforts to enliven a tradition require changing it so as to make it relevant for the current context. To embrace a tradition is to make it one's own by altering it. A passive acknowledgment of a tradition does not allow one to live within it. One must apply the tradition as one's own. In other words, the importance of the terms, 'prejudice' and 'tradition,' for Gadamer's hermeneutics lies in the way they indicate the active nature of understanding that produces something new. Tradition hands down certain interests, prejudices, questions, and problems, that incite knowledge. Tradition is less a conserving force than a provocative one. Even a revolution, Gadamer notes, is a response to the tradition that nonetheless makes use of that very same tradition.

is a set of practices governed by accepted rules seeking to inculcate certain values and norms by repetition.

a set of practices, normallly governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of a ritual or symbolic nature, which seek to inculcate certain values and norms of behaviour by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past. . . .' The 'characteristic of 'traditions' . . . is invariance. The past . . . to which they refer imposes fixed (normally formalized) practices, such as repetition. 'Custom' . . . does not preclude innovation and change up to a point. (Hobsbawm and Ranger X )

is a set or sequence of conceptual hierarchies, held in place by a kind of violence. The task is not to do away with tradition, but to 'deconstruct it' to find its cracks and openings from which its basic presumptions are revealed and something new might emerge.

For Derrida, tradition (as in 'the Western metaphysical tradition') is conceived as a set or sequence of conceptual hierarchies, held in place by a kind of violence.' (net)

is a spring-board into the future, not an arm-chair for repose.

Tradition must be a spring-board into the future, not an arm-chair for repose. David Ben-Gurion

is always problematical. The only way to precede is to continually appropriate and reappropriate it.

Tradition is always problematical. The only way to proceed to the future is through the appropriation, the continual reappropriation, of tradition. The goal of the interpretive approach to the human world is to cultivate such habits, to recognize that we are condemned to remain open, both to the past and to the future' (Rabinow and Sullivan 18).

is authentic when it redeems the old, rather than repeats it.

. . . suggests criteria for distinguishing authentic from pseudo-'sublations' of these polarities, which allow us to identify as progressive those cultural forms that do not repeat the old, but redeem it' (Buck-Morss 1989:57).

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