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(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 •
| [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". |