[lit-ideas] Re: Viva la Differance!

  • From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:06:20 -0400

>> an apples/oranges thing if you compare Derrida to James Joyce.


That was in part the point of my contributions to the thread. Some APPLE
philosophers claim there is no ultimate signified and so language rests
not only on ever-changing culture (which makes sense), but also is at
any given moment subject to Lacanian play and to the game of
deconstruction.

However, many ORANGE literary folk know that this only makes sense to an
anthropologist from outer space, that significance, even full-blown
meaning, can be rescued from, or brought into existence by, the properly
chosen words, artfully arranged. (For more on the dictionary
controversy, see David Foster Wallace's article, "Tense Present:
Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage.")


Eric

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