And then there's Theodore Roethke ("The Waking"):
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
Can't get much more compacted than that.
Candice
--- Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And thinking again, I trust you are aware of that
> rather tricky
> translation problem as to science which in French
> may mean more so
> knowledge rather then what in the Anglo world could
> mean science not as
> knowledge but theoretical physics, for example.
> There is some Barthes
> which I really have to check the French publication
> to make sense of the
> English version. Knowledge is most certainly open to
> ideological
> investments of many various kinds meaning knowledge
> always falls toward
> an equivocal ambiguous reading which is basically
> theological in terms
> of how this is to be decided by the reading subject.
> Poetry then comes
> to stand in for the general economy of theology as
> polysemic
> enunciation.... one is expected to chose the meaning
> that best suits
> what one may think god would want. And who is god
> after the death of God
> but the thinking human subject exposed to a
> hermeneutic choice at which
> they find themselves to be central or mono-centric?
>
> Mmmm, there is much to think about here, so many
> thanks again.
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:12 -0700, Douglas Barbour
> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
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