Posts by recordari
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Anonymous Author,
I am humbled to be even having this conversation. Am I having this conversation? This seems wholly more existential than any other aforementioned philosophical construct. It all comes down to sensations of the numena in the end.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Sacha,
Post-modernists care very much about symbols and little about the material world. Perhaps that’s mostly because they tend to be well-off and well-educated, so don’t have much in the way of material concerns themselves.
"If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it."
It's the cymbals I like. Can I get a hi-hat?
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
“No word is inherently meaningful. Rather a word is only a ‘signifier,’ or the representation of something, and it must be combined in the brain with the ‘signified,’ or the thing itself, in order to form a meaning-imbued ‘sign.’ In dismantling ‘signs’ we come to an empirical understanding of how humans synthesise physical stimuli into words and other abstract concepts.” I agree.
Semiotics. I agree also.
PS: I wrote this before reading Geoff’s post. Honest.
Not J.D Salinger
I meant no offence by the way. When you wrote this;
Dear reader, is it your voice or mine you’re hearing as you read this?
I thought, and said to myself, 'bravo!'
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Dude, step away from the Post-Modernism!
What, you mean I should burn my Barthes and Baudrillard? That would just leave Baudelaire, and I quite like my alliterative approach to library classification.
I knew the respect for Te Herald couldn’t last, but really – you couldn’t try and sketch out the bigger picture?
Phew!
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And from where I sit, in a metaphysical fug here on my sofa in front of the television, whiskey in hand, slippers on and pants off, that seems unacceptable.
Are you J D Salinger?
[Coat]
But on a more serious note, the LA Times had this interesting piece in 2007.
Which references The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes in 1968.
Which is why it is derisory to condemn the new writing in the name of a humanism hypocritically turned champion of the reader’s rights. Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature. We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant antiphrastical recriminations of good society in favor of the very thing it sets aside, ignores, smothers or destroys; we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
I would like ‘antiphrastical recriminations’ to become part of my common parlance, if only I could work out what it means.
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Field Theory: An important message for…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The End of Days is nigh…
That's two in one day. Not that we're counting or any-ting. If you hit three, we'll have to declare a national wormhole-y day.
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FWIW, that was 'Random', in many senses.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to giovanni tiso,
In all this, I’m still baffled that Trotter ended up in that chair. How many names were there in the phone list, four million?
Wait for his book.
Radom Access Memoir.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Made the hummus already. Will saddle up the ponies soon, honest.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Sacha,
Yep
Dude, that was quick. I’m dying a little inside now, just so you know. ;-<
This from High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver:
Also very well put. Where would we be if only celebrity authors made it onto the shelves of bookstores? Oh, in Whitcoulls. As you were.