Keston writes
As I said earlier, I think that the emphasis on 'play' in
>current writing tends to privatize the reading experience, by tacit
>agitation against the prospect of consensual interpretation, in favour of
>a Nietzschean style of reading -out of place in our prese(n)t world-.
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It seems to me that the key word here is "tacit." Setting aside the
question of the value of "consensual interpretation" for the moment, I
wonder if a quasi-empirical study of the institutional and
extra-institutional discourses mediating the reading of (eg) Andrews in
various academic and extra-academic communities would truly reveal a
post-Nietzschean orthodoxy--odd phrase-- with any real power and
effectively opposed to "consensual interpretation". From my own recent
experience I'd say that the initiatives of Deconstruction have been partly
set aside, if these were ever "playful" as they were put into practice; the
regime I knew in graduate school has been replaced by new ones. One symptom
of Deconstruction's decline--you'll excuse my echoes--is that Derrida's
more recent writing seems to be attracting nothing close to the attention
heaped upon Of Grammatology, whatever we think about the reception of that
book or its applications in various hermeneutic and pedagogical practices.
Just a question really--no time for anything more.
Keith
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