Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:08:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Events > > deterritorizaton? > > It can, I suupose it would depend on inventive juxtapositions which > both deteritorialize a concept like paralogy as well as that of > 'deleuzian' deterretorialization itself. I try to do, strong > misreadings, to use Harold Bloom's expression. I don't think there is > such a thing as deluzian, lyotardian, or derridean concepts because > there is always displacements, digressions, differential drifts and > such, that bring into play unknown, unforeseen readings. So yes, it can, > and no, not necessarily as if it were a question of us, or you, or I, > adequating ourselves to set notions of which it just a matter of > getting them right. 'Good' interpretations work if they stimulate and > spill writing, more talk giving rise to other phrases, other language > games, other events that would be singular. Isn't this Deleuze's > "and..." ? Lyotard speaks similarly in some places. Why couldn't this > lead to Derridean dissemination? or Diderot's digression? or Shlovsky's > defamilarization, or the rhetorician's 'turn'? and so on... (this is > Wittgenstein's expression. I'm very interested in invention, even > allowing putatively non-fictional exchanges to become fictional. I see > nothing wrong with somebody responding on this list, for instance, with > a poem, or a short story, or an online persona, or a multiplicity of > personas. Although, there is something to be said for being as faithful > as possible to the sense of what a writer is getting at... > > Ari(...) > This raises an interesting point, I think, in the context of a "close reading" of Lyotard and two ways that we can approach him: 1) "key words" approach: identify the terms as he uses them, determine them so to speak. 2) "inventive" approach: see what ways we can play off of these terms, see what drifts they set into motion. The second seems more "paralogical" (or more in keeping with a deterritorialization/reterritorialization), but I'm getting a growing sense of why it makes sense to have a good sense of #1 as well. How did the essay turn out? Have a webby version with a URL for us to peek at? --mark
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