grgr: overcoming of metaphysics
Paul Mackin
pmackin at clark.net
Sat Jul 1 10:56:48 CDT 2000
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 Muchasmasgracias at cs.com wrote:
> pmackin at clark.net writes:
>
> << Perhaps I could have said rational thinking, or logical thinking. This
> would still include what Derrida does. Would it always include what
> Pynchon does? >>
>
> Logic is logocentric? Well sure! And it includes Derrida to the extent that
> he fiddles with performatives and doesn't theorize/explain. I think
> Pynchon's very into those eddies and details which run against the logical
> grain (all that senseless, illogical ornamentation!)
>
Even if it it turns out that language can only SIMULATE irrationality and
transgression of the inside it's all we got.
P.
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