Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

novels like the ones he writes. but it falls apart on texts that don't make
the rage of interpretation their. goal. Like all models of the world
semiotics fits some things well and. other things badly and the things it
fits badly happen to be precisely the. things I care most about right now
in the making of art. Maybe somebody. could propose a new nonlinear
model of semiotics or better a chaotic one. that would extend the field
into a place that might be interesting. But. Eco's views on language are
too restrictive for me and don't carry me to. the places I want to go..
Greimas deals with a much wider range of issues than semiotics in his
work. and I prefer him to Eco. Even so there is still much in the making
of art. that Greimas doesn't take into account. (Not that I can recall
anything. specifically that I could critique off the top of my pointy little
head. .. .) Linguistics still only skims the surface of art's deepest
concerns so I. guess the question is should an artist be content with
merely skimmed. surfaces Or should he dive headlong into the deep
waters where theories. fear to tread I guess some of us are Ahabs and
some of us are Ishmaels. I. favor the crazy Ahab impulse speaking for
myself despite my wooden leg.. I am taking a breather here to let others
get into the conversation if they. wish. Feel free to tear me to pieces if
you wish. m. Kristeva's Prolegomenon to Revolution in Poetic
Language (from Art in. Theory ). A materialist foundation to dialectical
logic a theory of signification. based on the subject his formation.. to
perceive a signifying practice which. although produced in language is
only intelligible through it.. attests to a. 'crisis' of social structures...
For the capitalist mode of production produces and marginalizes but.
simultaneously exploits for its own regeneration on of the most
spectacular. shatterings of discourse.. can also integrate their process
qua process. As. art this shattering can display the productive basis of
subjective and. ideological signifying formations a foundation that
primitive societies call. 'sacred' and modernity has rejected as
schizophrenia.. point to the very. process of signifiance. Magic..
esoterism.. 'incomprehensible' poetry.. the. process that exceeds the
subject and his communicative structures.. If there exists a 'discourse'
which is not a mere depository of thin. linguistic layers.. or testimony
of a withdrawn body.. and instead.. a. practice..the sum of unconscious
subjective.. in gestures of confrontation and. appropriation destruction
and construction productive violence in short. .. it is the text.. The text
is a practice that could be compared to political revolution.. We. shall
call this heterogeneous practice signifiance to indicate on the one. hand
that biological urges are socially controlled directed and organized.
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