Chris
I've read all your discussions but can't say I've always comprehended
them.
Nevertheless, yesterday, while reading Christian Bök's 'Pataphysics:
The Poetics of an Imaginary Science, the following struck me as
connecting in some way to some things you said:
Whereas poetry has always offered an egalitarian regime, destabilizing
the _signifier_ within a generalized economy of polysemic enunciation,
science has only offered a totalitarian regime, stabilizing the
_signified_ within a restricted economy of monosemic enunciation. For
Barthes, science must begin to acknowledge its ideological investments,
radicalizing itself by poeticizing itself. If ideology is the unreal
conciliation of a real contradiction, is it not fair to say that
ideology is itself an imaginary solution -- and therefore
'pataphysical? If metaphysics must study the ontology of truth, must
not 'pataphysics study the ideology of power? (16).
There's much more, but that struck me as juxtaposing with some of your
comments...
Doug
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