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

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Dood, relax....was just taking that Dada engine for a spin.

On 10/27/05, John Doe <tristero69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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 ...
> >
>
>
>
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