antw. absurd & nauseating

[David Morris]

This is the most incredible gobblety-gook I've ever seen.  Is this supposed 
to be philosophy?

DM

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>Immanence and Transcendence in Thomas Pynchon 's _Mason & Dixon_
>
>A Phenomenological Study
>by Joakim Sigvardson
>Doctoral dissertation
>to be publicly examined in
>G-salen, Arrheniuslaboratoriet, Frescati
>on 25 May, 2002 at 10 a.m.
>for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
>
>Abstract
>Sigvardson,J.
>Immanence and Transcendence in Thomas Pynchon 's _Mason&Dixon_:
>A Phenomenological Study.
>Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.
>Stockholm Studies in English XCVII.
>Pp.x+156.ISBN 91-22-01962-6.
>
>The investigation studies Thomas Pynchon 's _Mason&Dixon_ as a novel that
>comes to givenness in terms of three strata of manifestation: the arty,
>the rhizomatic, and the acosmic. Utilizing a new affective turn
>implemented within the phenomenological movement by Michel Henry, the
>study proposes that alongside a rhizomatic mode of accessibility promoting
>transcendence, _Mason&Dixon_ manifests a withholding of transcendence.
>The study investigates the manifestation of this ontological withholding
>by carrying out the phenomenological reduction established by Edmund
>Husserl, and by elucidating the phenomenon of immanence in the literary
>text by means of a theory of auto-affection rooted in - but not reducible
>to - such methodological reduction.
>
>The study proposes that the thematization of anomaly in _Mason&Dixon_
>may be unconstructed by means of phenomenological moves that uncover
>strata of phenomenalization that are not apparent on a thematic or merely
>playful level. These strata, with their promotion of immanence at the
>expense of transcendence, are found to be complexly affective in nature.
>The affectivity governing the withholding of transcendence in these strata
>is discovered to be instrumental in the work's critique of colonial modes
>of spatialization,of logocentric modes of transcendence, and of
>post-Nietzschean modes ofaffective mastery.
>
>_Mason&Dixon_ discloses a tension between a mode of anomaly that is part
>of a normal/anomalous dichotomy and a mode of anomaly that is doubly
>anomalous.Manifested as a nonspatial zone,the doubly anomalous becomes
>manifested on the hither side of oppositional structures in the novel,
>such as truth/untruth.The doubly anomalous in _Mason&Dixon_ is identified
>as an 'acosmic' zone of affectivity in which mastering intellectualizations
>fall short of their telos. Insofar as the 'acosmic' occurs within
>logocentric cartography,it implies an unsettling of every horizonal
>subject, of nature as the property of man, and of freeplay as the medium
>of will to power.
>
>© Joakim Sigvardson 2002
>ISBN 91-22-01962-6
>ISSN 0346-6272
>Printed in Sweden 2002
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