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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