{"id":1723,"date":"2011-12-29T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:15:41","slug":"only-its-mother-could-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Only its mother could love it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still chewing at the bones of this Poststructuralist carcass, and this morning I&#8217;m trying to puzzle through just <i>why<\/i> the stuff is so hard to read. It&#8217;s passages like this that stick in the craw:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Foucault sought to understand the discontinuities within Western European history by highlighting the differences between <b>distinct contingently constituted epistemological situations<\/b>. In studies influenced by Foucault, history is mapped in order to trace the <b>borders of discursive formations<\/b> for discontinuities of meaning&#8230; Foucault imagined differences in terms of <b>discontinuities internal to a given culture&#8217;s history<\/b> and as <b>marking the interior structure of the subjectivities formed<\/b> within that culture. (Peter Jackson &#8220;Mapping Poststructuralism&#8217;s Borders: The Case for Poststructural Area Studies&#8221; <i>Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia<\/i> 18:1 2003:49)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <b>bold<\/b>ed fragments <i>must<\/i> be meant to mean something, but I have to read them about six times before what that something might be starts to percolate through to my thinking brain, and even then I&#8217;m awash in alternate readings. How does anybody ever learn to read this stuff? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is deconstruction&#8217;s positing of a single field of meaning upon which opposed dominant and marginalized binary categories are mutually defined that permits this approach to become linked with universalisms despite a professed interest in particularity. (Jackson 2003:54)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mind quails, rebels, withers, and declares itself too goddam old and inflexible to get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still chewing at the bones of this Poststructuralist carcass, and this morning I&#8217;m trying to puzzle through just why the stuff is so hard to read. It&#8217;s passages like this that stick in the craw: Foucault sought to understand the discontinuities within Western European history by highlighting the differences between distinct contingently constituted epistemological situations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}