Content is everything that context is not.
Hal
"There is poetry in everything. That
is the biggest argument against poetry."
--Miroslav Holub
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Content/style doesn't work as an opposition - in particular, content isn't
> what you have left over after you've peeled off the style. Content is the
> concrescence of style, or that about which style coalesces. It isn't
> anything apart from this coalescence, although you could say the same of a
> tornado. The style of a washing machine manual co-ordinates indication and
> expectation in such a way that the gentle reader learns how to operate a
> washing machine. Its referentiality is the outcome of successful
> co-ordination. Bad manuals, like the one for my old VCR, indicate buttons
> that aren't there and generate expectations that aren't met. Perhaps it
> refers to a different model.
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