File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-01-27.165, message 134


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.




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