[lbo-talk] On the Limits of Rhetoric

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Tue Nov 30 11:45:44 PST 2004


Miles Jackson wrote:


> No, if one person "reinvents" a language, it's gibberish

By no means. There are degrees of reinvention, and a whole complex history of literary forms and cultural interpretation which that reinvention entails. But it doesn't happen by itself; subjects and subjectivities are required.


> Language is a social
> product through and through

But the history of every product cannot be separated from the class struggles of its producer(s) -- and one of those struggles is the struggle over the meanings of those products, i.e. the field of interpretation, ideology and theory. It's a question of setting the historicized object in motion towards the historical subject (as well as vice versa).

-- DRR



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