Poststructural Inc.

[jolly]

"It's quite clear, then, that the ideas of Derrida, amongst other
poststructuralists, do provide ample ground for intelligent discussion 
and interpretation of Pynchon's work. Not so Chomsky's Language Acquisition
Device theory, behaviourist linguistics, or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 
I'm afraid, which were dead in the water thirty, forty and fifty years ago
respectively." 
 
Heh heh heh. I guess you should inform Mr. Pynchon of that as well, since his works are significantly influenced by the positivist/behaviorist tradition.  Anyways like most rants from  Poststructural Inc.  the writer begs the question of why "logocentrism" (which of course no one really bothers to define, apart from vague remarks about some presumed platonic center, or "writing" and visualization) is in ltself wrong or misguided.   There's an assumption that any view that depends on reason or clarity or even the lowest degree of deductive or inductive necessity is itself tainted. Yet there is no necessity to any poststructural "arguments" or themes either. We are not required, except in the Belle-lettres Biz, to attend your Heideggerian Church, bozo......  
 

		
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