Amer. Schol. article

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

Rich,
	Do the initials of the author, Bert O. States, (disregarding, of course, the 
counter-hegemonic semantic emptiness of the universal Lacanian signifier, 
the--O--the aught or cipher which empties itself at the moment of its own 
already-always-approriated becoming) perhaps offer a clue to the answer you seek?

john m


>Does anyone on this list read The American Scholar?  (an effete intellectual 
>quarterly).  There was an article in the Winter 1994 issue called Notes on 
>the Poststructural Code by one Bert O. States of UC/Santa Barbara (professor 
>of dramatic arts), full of mind-numbing Derrida-esqe jargon.  It was pretty 
>funny and I though it was a parody of the genre, eg:
>
>"Thus Lacan is not a sound but a library of ecrits, a labyrinth in whose 
>endless passages resounds the sonorous echo of the Unconscious itself.  It 
>is as if these magical, musical, cabalistic phonations had been conjured by 
>poets to sweeten the discourse...."
>
>Anyhow, nobody ever responded in the Letters to the Editor so I didn't find 
>out if the guy was kidding or not.  It's good for a few laughs if your 
>library subscribes....   
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