Mar 24, 2008 15:29
I'll shut up soon. Probably.
So. Panel called 'You're reading it wrong'. Which turned into a head-warping charge through literary theory and (post) structuralism. Utterly bloody marvellous.
I wish to remember the line 'People you dislike become ugly' so I shall write it down. There.
can't make her think,
axiom,
b-boys
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now, in this, our winter of
Infinite Regress
alternatively:
Modernism falls
like the outdated leaves of
discarded meaning
So far as I understand it, Structuralism was about the search for Meaning - it assumed that the structures we saw around us were Real, and that we could join together the signifier (what we say) and the signified (what we refer to) in an absolute and truthful way. Post-structuralism says "Actually, even those relations are governed by the society and environment of the person(s) doing the signifying, so no absolute understanding is possible. The difference is thus essentially similar to the difference between Modernism ("We search for Truth!") and Post-Modernism ("There is no Truth, just lots of useful stories.")
*waits to be killed by a passing critical theorist for mauling things badly*
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