Doug, thanks for the reference.
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:12 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Chris
>
> I've read all your discussions but can't say I've always comprehended
> them.
>
> Nevertheless, yesterday, while reading Christian Bök's 'Pataphysics:
> The Poetics of an Imaginary Science, the following struck me as
> connecting in some way to some things you said:
>
> 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. If ideology is the unreal
> conciliation of a real contradiction, is it not fair to say that
> ideology is itself an imaginary solution -- and therefore
> 'pataphysical? If metaphysics must study the ontology of truth, must
> not 'pataphysics study the ideology of power? (16).
>
> There's much more, but that struck me as juxtaposing with some of your
> comments...
>
> Doug
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> Some speak of a return to nature --
> I wonder where they could have been?
>
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