In a message dated 8/29/09 5:31:22 PM, [email protected] writes:
> I am also > dumbstruck by what seems to be Mr Millers disinterest in his own > questions: > when I asked him to clarify them, he simply moved on to another set -- to > wit: a set that seems to be orthogonal to the original ones -- as if he > had > not inquired after something in the first place. > He made questioning motions. Then he made some more. I don't think the object of the exercise was to come to a conclusion but to exchange a series of verbal motions,which he constructs using words he has seen in other verbal motions. And after all, if BArthes can suggest that meanings are determined by social activity and Miller accepts these exchanges as social activity, then Miller may very well have gotten some kind of conclusion out of them. You however are hampered by the notion that the verbal motions ought to connect logically and reflect some idea of the subject recognizable to other people interested in it. I have enjoyed your grapplings with Miller very much, they have been illuminating. KAte Sullivan
