antw. absurd & nauseating

[Monica Belevan]

David, yes it´s gabbledegook enough for a few months. Can you imagine hell 
as being the place where you read doctoral thesis after doctoral thesis unto 
the rump of eternity?

´´ ..I´m not here
This is not happening...´´

--Monica

>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
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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
>>Pitney Bowes Management Services
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