IVIV8: A long time in politics

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 4 02:38:02 CDT 2009


The Real, being the promise of an unmediated reality, the text as an open window. Impossible, of course. Of particular interest, perhaps: "... every Tuesday or Cheap Pizza Nite" (11). The marketing ploy appropriates Tuesday-outside-representation and represents it as something only locals, in the know, will recognise. This moment and the start of 8.2, Doc watching TV, provide the references that date the action and construct a time-line outside the action. Each moment, of course, in the writing, provides the means of its own de(con)struction.

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From: Dave Monroe [mailto:against.the.dave at gmail.com] 

The Real, or The Symbolic?





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