MDDM World-as-text

[Doug Millison]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:.
> 
> As I noted, "text", in the definition we've been
> using here, isn't confined
> to words. 

Then it's not much of a distinction, if "text" expands
to include all of human experience -- it's lost it's
distinctiveness as "text", and thus loses most of its
explanatory power.  

And I think science can nail down most
> human sensory equipment and
> data nowadays.

Highly debatable.  That's the materialist dream, and
quite a utopian one at that.  Read E.O. Wilson's
Consilience and Wendell Berry's response to it.

> I'd say that
> it's a belief that one
> is able to get beyond the self in this way, that one
> is able to know and
> possess the ultimate "truth" - whether this "text"
> be constituted in
> scientific, religious or ideological terms - which
> is the author of far
> greater brutality and injustice within Pynchon's
> fictional vision.

Could be.  I don't see anybody proposing this program
here, however, so not sure who you're arguing against.


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