ABSTRACT
The different rhythms experienced in the temporalisation of routine are well enough illustrated in Jameson's account of downtown life in contemporary Los Angeles. Jameson's account of late capitalism, despite his claims to the contrary, tells us in essence what we need to know about global market forces. For Merleau-Ponty, the underlying forms of social organisation, of institution and situation, remain open as different articulations of the cultural dominant and its temporal structure. Alfred Schutz's important achievement, a radical reading of the rationalisation thesis, places the latter within an 'open horizon of typical familiarity', the routine, everyday structure of experience, where hypostatised goals are always open to alternative interpretations, to contestation and reclamation of these fetishised institutional forms. Dummett's reading of Frege's theory of meaning enables us to locate the routine, contextualised nature of our discursive practices in terms of their senses, which connect the conventionalised, sedimented meanings of utterances to their present deployment, thus realising their existential meaning and reference.
