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face the language of his own electromagnetic technology. The
strategy any culture must resort to in a period like this was
indicated by Wilhelm von Humboldt:
Man lives with his objects chiefly—in fact, since his feeling
and acting depends on his perceptions, one may say
exclusively—as language presents them to him. By the
same process whereby he spins language out of his own
being, he ensnares himself in it; and each language draws
a magic circle round the people to which it belongs, a
circle from which there is no escape save by stepping out
of it into another. (5)
Such awareness as this has generated in our time the
technique of the suspended judgment by which we can
transcend the limitations of our own assumptions by a critique