MDDM World-as-text

[jbor]

I disagree. An individual's perception of the world necessarily shapes their
experience of the world, and vice versa. It's not possible to isolate
experience from perception; no-one is able to experience the world in a
vacuum, "wie es eigentlich gewesen". It's naive to assume that you can. Each
individual perceives the world differently, and each responds accordingly.
Far from "remov[ing] the subject from experience" the idea of world-as-text
emphasises the point that "experience" only ever occurs, or manifests, in a
subjective context. It's useful, and apt, to observe that humans constitute
the world in a textual way.

best


on 11/8/02 6:15 PM, Doug Millison at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> 
> Until experience is verbalized or otherwise
> translated into "text", the world is not text,
> world-as-text is a fiction that's useful for
> criticism, but it doesn't get you very far in
> experiencing the world as it exists, most of which
> requires no text or verbalization whatsoever -- it's a
> crippling metaphor, one that removes the subject from
> experience, which mediates experience as text, a pale
> imitation.
> 
> 
>> 
>> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>> As soon as a person writes or says or thinks or
>>> senses (or paints or dances
>>> or whatever other form of expression) that "the
>>> world is this or that", he
>>> or she is creating a text, a representation or
>>> interpretation, of the world.
>