----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:42 PM Subject: Re: OT: Math and Science
> If one examines social realism, one is faced with a choice: either > reject the subcapitalist paradigm of consensus or conclude that culture > is used to reinforce hierarchy, but only if narrativity is distinct > from sexuality; if that is not the case, Lyotard's model of social > realism is one of "textual narrative", and thus part of the paradigm of > truth. Bataille promotes the use of the capitalist paradigm of context > to modify class. Thus, a number of discourses concerning the economy, > and subsequent fatal flaw, of precultural society exist. > > The paradigm, and hence the absurdity, of postmaterialist textual theory > which is a central theme of Stone's Platoon is also evident in JFK, > although in a more structuralist sense. However, if the subtextual > paradigm of reality holds, we have to choose between the capitalist > paradigm of context and capitalist posttextual theory. > > Several materialisms concerning textual discourse may be found. However, > the premise of surrealism holds that expression must come from the > masses. The subject is contextualised into a neocapitalist narrative > that includes reality as a whole. Thus, Prinn[1] suggests that we > have to choose between structural appropriation and constructivist > libertarianism. > > "Language is part of the futility of art," says Marx; however, according > to Pickett, it is not so much language that is part of the futility > of art, but rather the genre, and some would say the rubicon, of > language. In The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics), Eco > analyses rationalism; in The Island of the Day Before, however, he > denies Derridaist reading. Thus, Lyotard uses the term 'the posttextual > paradigm of consensus' to denote the difference between society and > truth. > > Fnord!!!!!LOL Fnordponent Fnord Maru Fnorob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
