From: NADEEM OMAR <AJXNOT-AT-ccn4.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date:          Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:24:54 GMT0BST
Subject:       law of supplemantarity or rupture is repetation?


Can someone clarify the concept of "law of supplementarity" or more 
specifically SPIVAK's usage of it. To make it handy, I will cite two 
examples of its use.

1. "It is by the law of supplementarity(what seems a rupture is also a 
repetation), then, that ........"The Rani of Sirmur, p 138.in Europe 
and its Others. 

2. "These structuralists question humanism by exposing its 
hero....There is an affinity between the imperialist subject and the 
subject of humanism.Yet the crisis of anti-humanism-like all crisses-
does not move our collective "fully".The rupture shows itself to be a 
repetation. They fall back upon the notion of consciouness as agent, 
totality........" In other worlds, essays in cultural politics, p202.
Cheers
Omar



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