I am ahead of you all they each and everyone do my head in
P d'hopeless
Ps is this Halliday the doc in ok corral? handy with a good ole gunnow that is inspiring
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
Sent: 19 January 2010 13:58
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Subject: Re: more on Halliday
> Robin, get ready for another shock...
>
> Not only is MAK Halliday credited with being the inventor of social
> semiotics...
>
> He was in Australia, a self confessed Foucaultian!
Hey, that makes sense, Chris!! The Left Connection, activist fraction
thereof.
Foucault is the only post-modernist philosopher that Chomsky has any time
for, and also Sokal in _Intellectual Impostures_, by omission, not slagging
him off there.
(Also me -- Derrida does my head in and Lacan bores me rigid. I kinda
approve of Deleuze [as did Foucault] but unlike you, can't get my head round
him. i.e. I'm left with a sense of impressed but bemused bafflement. But
Foucault ... I remember when I read *his version of the Death of the
Author, I bounced up and down an yelled, "Hey, that makes sense!" Unlike
Barthes, whose only two decent books for me are _Elements of Semiology_ and
_Writing Degree Zero_, where he's still hewing closely to de Saussure rather
than crapping up and generally mis-extending the implications of the
_Course_. In *his Death of the Author, Foucault displays a sense of history
that Barthes seems to me to conspicuously lack.
Further also -- the Left connection again -- Foucault looms large behind the
British side of New Historicism but not nearly to the same degree behind the
Americans.)
Damn, I wish the copies of Halliday's later works weren't in the UK rather
than here -- I rushed out and bought them all in the wake of reading
Rosemary Huisman's (another Australian) _The written poem_, which was where
I discovered that he hadn't simply vanished into the mists after the
sixties. Wonder what Halliday I would think of Halliday II? A bit like the
earlier viewing the later Wittgenstein.
Was Anne Boyd professor of music when you were at Sydney, or did she arrive
later? I wrote the libretto for her first opera (at York, UK, in 1970).
Robin
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