Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:47:11 -0400 From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda) Subject: Re: "Framing Time: Text/Archive/Trace" SUNY -AT- Buffalo Eng. Dept. Conf. (fwd) >Sterling, it's funny, but I don't recall our post ever mentioning >deconstruction.... > >And what exactly does "down with deconstruction" mean? Is it that you >are *down* with it, as in you're with it, that it's your friend, your >companion, or compatriot? > >And as for the mapping and territorializing metaphor, all I can really >say is, well, exactly. Perhaps, though, I miss your point, and what you >are advocating is some sort of a return to the earth qua earth.... > >CHris Post-modern theory because of the rapidity with which it was made academic and popular has become the whipping "person" for all who miscomprehend its project as well as the currency of those who wish to be cutting edge ( both sides of this equation usually have little or none understanding of what is this project realy encompasses-- having reduced it to sound bytes and slogans). I think (have determined that) the discursive nature of the original post struck Mr. Higgins as being without horizons. The list of potential topics constitutes for him an on-going project that can not be contained by a siingular event, in other words it seemed an arbitrary list which turned its subject (its "frame") into an umbrella rather than a compass. To wit the Achille's heal of post-structuralism in the hands of its less skilled devotees and psychophants was exposed-- the subject was turned into a stew. By the way deconstruction though no explicit reference is made to it, is the specter that haunts all such projects for it is a methodolgy that is fundamental to analytic discourse at this time. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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