On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:28 +0100, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> The study of cant writing from the beginning and up to the present day
> is
> riddled with this, the careful, whether intentional or not,
> neutralisation
> of the most powerful voices and speakers, and the quite casual
> abandonment
> of scholarly standards when it comes to the presentation of cant
> texts.
Robin, from my angle this is where you have to consider that both
attribution and not attribution, is in itself not the problem. To say it
again, the problem is not attribution, at least in terms of my
understanding. (The reason you were spot on has more to do with a
poetics of shouting... I'll leave this alone for now.)
Both ways, the suppression of the outlier will occur. The demand to
attribute or the refusal of this convention, even if as neutral which
would be itself trapped within this inside outside economy will still
allow the suppression of an outlier voice. (Hence my critique of
Language poetry, to risk a diversion perhaps best left for another
discussion, again.)
Perhaps the first chapter of Foucault, Will to Knowledge, We other
Victorians, best addresses what I am trying to say. In particular,
because repression or it's opposition is unable to lay out the problem.
Anyways, you have got me going back to that idea. (The idea of shouting
and exclamation is another area to think about. Especially a shouting
which is it's own discursive economy? But this may be more toward my
ideas of the problem.)
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have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird
just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
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