Tweeps! This is the one you absolutely must read! It explains so much and I will be quoting it lots. It needs reading slowly and with full concentration but is clear and well...right.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/972681293405106176 …
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Logocentrism originally meant that language straightforwardly described reality. There was reality first and language referred to it. Derrida, particularly, denied this. He put language first and this was truly logocentric but it displaced reality so words aren't referring to it.
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"If we cannot perceive and represent an objective world through the logos (reason) - describing what's there -, we can, rather, extract it from the logos (language) - construct it through discourses.
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Honestly, you could hv written this way better. The fact that it requires your paraphrase to be understood does not speak for it.
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Maybe tomorrow. Right now it’s as clear as mud and is reminding me of Judith Butler.
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It's not like that tho! It's arguing for an objective reality and liberalism. I might translate it. It will lose its beauty but be clear.
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You should have written it in tbe first place!
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I didn't see things in these terms until it was set out. Also, I love the way it was set out.
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The opacity results from him describing contemporary leftism in detail. I find it morbidly fascinating. Clearly not everybody's cup of tea.
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No, I didn't think it would be but it gets at the essence of what is going on here both with its detailed breakdown and its style. It's remarkable, I think.
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Perhaps my imagination, but the style appears to be a direct challenge to the "logocentric" left - I can play this game too! At least, I'm having some fun believing that.
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Yes! You can have your language and your tropes and your concepts but I can do it too and I can even make precise analysis of the situation in it and present it pleasingly, poetically whilst you waffle on saying nothing and doing it painfully.
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