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Blaster Master

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Mar 19, 2004, 2:35:50 PM3/19/04
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I just wrote this for a class of mine. Let me know if it's coherent
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The Economy of Expression: Modernism in the works of Gaiman


1. Consensuses of collapse

The main theme of Finnis's[1] critique of presemioticist discourse is
a mythopoetical totality. Sontag suggests the use of Debordist
situation to challenge class. Thus, the feminine/masculine distinction
depicted in Burroughs's The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is also
evident in Naked Lunch.

If one examines the capitalist paradigm of expression, one is faced
with a choice: either accept modernism or conclude that academe is
capable of social comment, but only if Bataille's essay on Debordist
situation is valid; otherwise, we can assume that sexuality is
intrinsically unattainable. Any number of dematerialisms concerning
the role of the participant as writer may be revealed. Therefore,
modernism states that language has intrinsic meaning.

Buxton[2] holds that we have to choose between neopatriarchialist
cultural theory and Marxist capitalism. In a sense, Lacan uses the
term 'modernism' to denote the difference between society and sexual
identity.

Many theories concerning Debordist situation exist. However, the
characteristic theme of the works of Burroughs is a postsemioticist
reality.

Bataille's analysis of presemioticist discourse suggests that
government is impossible. Therefore, Marx uses the term 'the dialectic
paradigm of context' to denote not sublimation per se, but
presublimation.
2. Burroughs and Debordist situation

In the works of Burroughs, a predominant concept is the distinction
between ground and figure. If neocultural patriarchialist theory
holds, we have to choose between Debordist situation and prestructural
theory. However, the subject is contextualised into a presemioticist
discourse that includes sexuality as a paradox.

Baudrillard promotes the use of Debordist situation to attack class
divisions. In a sense, Bataille uses the term 'textual rationalism' to
denote the role of the observer as reader.

Cameron[3] holds that the works of Burroughs are an example of
self-falsifying nihilism. But the subject is interpolated into a
Debordist situation that includes reality as a reality. Lyotard
suggests the use of subcapitalist cultural theory to modify and read
consciousness. In a sense, the main theme of Drucker's[4] critique of
modernism is the defining characteristic, and eventually the futility,
of postpatriarchialist class.
1. Finnis, C. P. ed. (1973) Modernism in the works of Burroughs. Panic
Button Books

2. Buxton, G. B. C. (1986) The Forgotten Fruit: Derridaist reading,
modernism and nationalism. Yale University Press

3. Cameron, Z. D. ed. (1974) Debordist situation in the works of
Spelling. Cambridge University Press

4. Drucker, A. P. D. (1985) Narratives of Stasis: Modernism in the
works of McLaren. University of Oregon Press

John Jones

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Mar 19, 2004, 3:28:27 PM3/19/04
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I would have hoped that you might have mentioned that a promulgation of the
disaffectual division of a totality into extrinsic and intrinsic, was,
despite the modernists, a recursive trend.
So why didn't you?
Mention it?
Do you think that common words need a succintual authority that,
paradoxically, can only be provided by the exegesis of an ideal, obscure
language?
You want to buck your ideas up.

JJ

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> I would have hoped that you might have mentioned that a promulgation of
the
> disaffectual division of a totality into extrinsic and intrinsic, was,
> despite the modernists, a recursive trend.
> So why didn't you?
> Mention it?
> Do you think that common words need a succintual authority that,
> paradoxically, can only be provided by the exegesis of an ideal, obscure
> language?
> You want to buck your ideas up.
>

Isn't this from this one postmodernist essay generator bot web site? See
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

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jame...@bellsouth.net

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Mar 20, 2004, 4:47:26 PM3/20/04
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You know best how your professor wants your essay presented. But I find the
best writing (and reading) is done with the assumption that a twelve year
old will be reading it. In other words, take all your 75 cent words and
expressions and break them down into 25, 15, 10 and 5 cent words. Make the
text as concrete and visual as possible. When you refer to other
philosophers or other authorities, try to give present day visual examples
of what their ideas mean.

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James H. Bath
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