antw. absurd & nauseating

[Monica Belevan]

I am missing this completely.
--Monica

>From: "Simon Bryquer" <sbryquer at worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: "Simon Bryquer" <sbryquer at worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Monica Belevan" <meet_mersault at hotmail.com>, <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>CC: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: antw. absurd & nauseating
>Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:28:30 -0400
>
>Moni  -- as this is your moniker flavor of the moment, you're out of sorts
>or whatever character you might be in mincing words.  And I imagine if he 
>is
>your boyfriend he should be  --- pause, fitting that he is a
>phenomenologist.
>
>SCB
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Monica Belevan" <meet_mersault at hotmail.com>
>To: <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:57 AM
>Subject: Re: antw. absurd & nauseating
>
>
>
>David and Heikki are beginning to scare me. My boyfriend is a
>phenomenologist.
>
>Moni quivers acosmically.
>
>--Moni
>
>P.S: I am still attempting to find out what is ´´absurd and nauseating´´ 
>and
>why. Perhaps my point failed to come across. I was referring to husserlian
>solipsism and the impossibility of escaping the pliered rings of speaking 
>to
>Gregory: it goes around and around and, in Monica vs. Pierrot Lunaire,
>conspicuously nowhere.
>
>And Gregory, yes, I was not speaking of a decadent school, but of a
>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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >This is the most incredible gobblety-gook I've ever seen.  Is this 
>supposed
> >to be philosophy?
> >
> >DM
> >
> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>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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