antw. absurd & nauseating

Thu Jul 11 11:39:18 CDT 2002

ooooooooh that's a good joke.
i think last time i heard that one was back in grade school, monica lewinski.
i know we agree. you don't have to agree that we agree. it's ok stay
up there.

gregory

MB> David and Heikki are beginning to scare me. My boyfriend is a 
MB> phenomenologist.

MB> Moni quivers acosmically.

MB> --Moni

MB> P.S: I am still attempting to find out what is ´´absurd and nauseating´´ and 
MB> why. Perhaps my point failed to come across. I was referring to husserlian 
MB> solipsism and the impossibility of escaping the pliered rings of speaking to 
MB> Gregory: it goes around and around and, in Monica vs. Pierrot Lunaire, 
MB> conspicuously nowhere.

MB> And Gregory, yes, I was not speaking of a decadent school, but of a 
MB> decandent spirit. Essentially, we may agree.

>>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>>To: hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi, lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
>>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org, meet_mersault at hotmail.com
>>Subject: Re: antw. absurd & nauseating
>>Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:40:50 -0500
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>>This is the most incredible gobblety-gook I've ever seen.  Is this supposed 
>>to be philosophy?
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>>DM
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>>>www.su.se/forskning/disputationer/spikblad/JoakimSigvardsson.pdf
>>>
>>>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
>>>Pitney Bowes Management Services
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