(Np) love the Bakhtin!

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Not to mention the Rhineland carnival whose subversion of hierarchies 
has over time produced hierarchies at least as rigid as the original ones.

And thereby hangs a tale.

Thomas



Am 23.01.2014 11:27, schrieb Michael Bailey:
> It should be added, however, that not every carnivalesque act is
> emancipatory, because sometimes, it can disinhibit reactive desires
> arising from the system. Bakhtinian theory is sometimes used to defend
> texts which arguably reproduce dominant values, but do so in an ‘ironic’
> or ‘humorous’ way. This happens because of the layers of prohibitions:
> the system often promotes something (such as sexism), then inhibits its
> unconstrained expression.
>

-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l