"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR, p1

[John Doe]

LOL!....yeah; I bet everyone who read this has a
verrrry clear idea of exactly what "the Logocentric
equivalence of the Heisenberg Principle and
Schroedinger's Cat" means! Hahahahaha.....the writer
has no clue - merely combining the sexy specialized
cant of diverse disciplines to create the illusion
that he actually comprehends what he's writing....and
combining it moronically at that;let's break it down,
shall we? Logocentric = essentially "word" or if you
want, "speech" centered...something...so, so far
something is word-centered...next we find that the
Heisenberg principle is being analogized to something
in or of language in some way....so, it seems the
author is trying to say that the way the Heisenberg
principle operates ( in physics ) has a kind of
linguistic counterpart...ok...nice..but...what is the
author imagining when he cokks up this comparison?
That's the crucial issue...if you can't be held
responsible to explain what you mean when you sling
hip discipline-specific argot and specialist language
around, then you can't be taken seriously
"interpreting " science, or literary texts for that
matter....and guess what - the Heisenberg priciple
describes what happens when you affect the momentum or
position of an electron by casting a beam of light (
or electrons ) in the process of
microobservation....you can measure the velocity OR
the position of an electron somewhat accurately, but
not both...and physicists know that this rule does NOT
apply to large-scale entities such as people or even
popcorn...it a seductive, but fallacious metaphor when
applied to such things.....then we have th wonderfull
stinkball " ...a postdialectic paradigm that includes
culture as a whole"...really? as a "whole"....ya SURE
abou' tha"?...sure it's not jus' a piece of a certain
culture...or mebbe the aspects of dance of the
culture, such as it is, of the Trobriand
Islanders?....wow...culture as a whole...what a
concept...what are the rest of you picturing when that
hollow notion zings past your visual field? I
wonder....

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> <<The primary theme of the works of Pynchon is the
> fatal flaw, and subsequent 
> meaninglessness, of the Logocentric equivalence of
> the Heisenberg principle 
> and Shroedinger's cat. In subsequent chapters the
> subject is contextualised 
> into a postdialectic paradigm of context that
> includes culture as a whole.  It 
> could also be said that Pynchon suggests the use of
> the subtextual  paradigm of 
> consensus to modify reality. >>
> 
> Finally, someone who agrees with me.  The
> logocentric equivalence and the 
> postdialectic paradigm.  
> 
> I was beginning to think I was nuts ...
> 



		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
http://farechase.yahoo.com