January 26, 2004
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Language Game
More on “selving,” a word coined by the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. (See Saturday’s Taking Lucifer Seriously.)
“… through the calibrated truths of temporal discipline such as timetabling, serialization, and the imposition of clock-time, the subject is accorded a moment to speak in.”
Framing
Intelligibility, Identity, and Selfhood:
A Reconsideration of
Spatio-Temporal Models.
The “moment to speak in” of today’s previous entry, 11:29 AM, is a reference to the date 11/29 of last year’s entry
That entry contains, in turn, a reference to the journal Subaltern Studies. According to a review of Reading Subaltern Studies,
“… the Subaltern Studies collective drew upon the Althusser who questioned the primacy of the subject….”
Munt also has something to say on “the primacy of the subject” –
“Poststructuralism, following particularly Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan, has ensured that ‘the subject’ is a cardinal category of contemporary thought; in any number of disciplines, it is one of the first concepts we teach to our undergraduates. But are we best served by continuing to insist on the intellectual primacy of the ‘subject,’ formulated as it has been within the negative paradigm of subjectivity as subjection?”
How about objectivity as objection?
I, for one, object strongly to “the Althusser who questioned the primacy of the subject.”
This Althusser, a French Marxist philosopher by whom the late Michael Sprinker (Taking Lucifer Seriously) was strongly influenced, murdered his wife in 1980 and died ten years later in a lunatic asylum.
For details, see
For details of Althusser’s philosophy, see the oeuvre of Michael Sprinker.
For another notable French tribute to Marxism, click on the picture at left.
