antw. absurd & nauseating

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on 7/11/02 9:40 AM, David Morris at fqmorris at hotmail.com wrote:

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> This is the most incredible gobblety-gook I've ever seen.  Is this supposed
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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.
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>> _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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> I'm dying to use this in a sentence. "comes to giveness in three strata of
manifestation: the arty, the rhizomatic, and the acosmic."

Talk about ontological withholding of transcendence. Is this a
phenomenological reduction elucidating the phenomenon of immanence within
the framework of the theory of auto-affection? If not, you have got to be
shitting me. Frigging hilarious. Who does your wigs, coz?
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