(radically trivial) In Memoriam: The Death of Intellectual Discourse at Syracuse University and The Birth of the Cult of the Clown

The Radical Tangerine Puts a Smiley Face on the Bourgeois University

(On recent texts of "Clown Pedagogy" see The Alternative Orange, Spring, 1995.)

THE RADICAL TANGERINE

Winter 1995. Volume 1. Number 1.

DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I THINK I AM?

By the RT Staff

Having problematized the retheorization of a decontextualized post-Hegelian concept of the self vis-a-vis a fore-grounding of the critique-al praxis wherein the ideological conditioning of the socially constructed lebenswelt is manifested by a thorough-going analysis of the relations of intellectual production in terms of the geneology of the power structure obtaining in the post-al academy of fin de siècle western "democracies" by which the intellectual bourgeoisie embeds its inadequately theorized race\class\gender[1] distinctions into a euro/centric curriculum determined by and determining the narratives out of which and into which the systematic hermeneutic of the circumspect speaking-forth of Dasein in its pre-theoretical everyday-ness is de-centered and marginalized and re-de-contextualized by an ahistorical prestructuralist heuristic that fictionalizes (factionalizes) the mythology of the traces of the protocols of decadence and incidentalizes the pathological repetition of a logo-centric epistemology of vraisemblable whereby politicized metaphors of domination are untheoretically posited as the grounds of a metaphysics of absence which in it, presence makes absent the absence of the present as conditioned by the logic of the inversion of the in-the-worldness of the Sign from which the historicized canons of criticism are exchanged for the de-libidinized subtexts of Capitalism which are transformed (but not transsubstantiated) into a •

Notes

[1]

Not to be confused with "race/class/gender". For the significance of the distinction between "/" and "\" as that whereby differance bodies forth, see Derrida, "(Re)Theorizing θ___: Towards a Post-Modern Orthographology" in The Theory of Irony and the Irony of Theory. C. Cen___ and G. Deleuze, eds. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 76ff. See also Lac___-Lab___, Pour una theiorie de la production typographique. (Paris: Seuil, 1971); de Man, "L'Oblitération du Virgule" L'Etudes Sémiotextuelle, 7: 57:_3. For Lacan's response and his arguments in favor of "/" over "\", see his Analyses Typographique (Paris: Seuil, 1974), esp. ch 7, "Rhétorique et Ponctuation".