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“The Monkey ‘tropes-a-dope’ the Lion, by representing a figurative statement as literal, depending on the Lion’s thickness to misread the difference.”
— Mar 01, 2023 05:04AM
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“Whereas signification depends for order and coherence on the exclusion of unconscious associations which any given word yields at any given time, Signification luxuriates in the inclusion of the free play of these associative rhetorical and semantic relations.”
— Feb 28, 2023 05:20AM
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The third term both critiques the idea of the binary opposition and demonstrates that Signifyin(g) itself encompasses a larger domain than merely the political. It is a game of language, independent of reaction to white racism or even to collective black wish-fulfillment vis-a-vis white racism. I cannot stress too much the presence of this third term, or in Hermese E Roberts’s extraordinarily suggestive phrase, ‘the Third Ear,’ an interracial ear through which encoded vernacular language is deciphered.”
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