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...and I don't get why people are looking for clarity when this is clearly Scholastic poetry ABOUT the ultimate indeterminacy of the Word, with some awesome jabs at the State of Nature. If you want this to be easy as hell, read Heidegger's "Poetry, Language, Thought," some Nagarjuna, and Derrida's own short essay "Structure, Sign, and Play . . ." for practice. But me, I take this as pure slippery entertainment.
— Oct 13, 2011 11:06PM
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Seriously, I don't actually see what is so hard about this anymore. There are very cogent arguments about how anthropologists made a ridiculous neo-"noble savagery" out of oral culture, not realizing that oral culture already HAD all the characteristics blamed on writing; there's a great masturbation joke about Rousseau and symbols; there's the general thrust that words only get fuzzier the closer you look;
— Oct 13, 2011 10:59PM
