the incommensurable

i believe we do a disservice by attempting to take account of difference. - that again, is the process of sameing difference. we do violence by using one register to speak to self and other, to difference, to the complexities and varieties of life. registers need be multiple, need be protean. here enters postmodernity and the skepticism of single registers, of grand narratives, of ultimate truths. we can never speak of value without asking 'who's value.' to live in this world, an ethics requires that we ask by who's standards and to what effects?