I have almost finished this reading  I have to do for uni, and I had a break an hour ago, and I still have not got back to it. I am reading about the cultural field of Literature and Art, the piece is written by a famous French social theorist Peirre Bourdieu, it facinating stuff but dense and time consuming to read. I am going to put in a quote where he is talking about the importance of meaning in understanding our world, but with this he is also suggesting, for me, the power of words and context in creating meaning but also in making social change and challenging dominant discourse.

"Ignorance of everything which goes to make up the 'mood of the age' produces a derealization of works: stripped of everything which attached them to the most concrete debates of their time (I am thinking in particular of the connotations of words), they are impoverished and transformed in the direction of intellectualism  or an empty humanism"
(bourdieu, 1993:32)