Shag, I never refered to paranoid structuralism. That's something you made up. I said that 1) it was solipsistic (il n'y a rien hors texte) and 2) Foucault's world functions thematically in a way suspiciously similarly to a horror movie trope. I also implied but did not state that this is in part the result of using a particular model of language (Saussure's) as a basis for understanding extralinguistic phenomena, such as history or society, where it does not apply.
Linguistic fetishism, whether that of Wittgenstein or Derrida, is the central sin of 20th-century philosophy!
--- On Mon, 4/13/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
doss just took up "paranoid
> structuralism" without bothering to find out what it wasn't
> he wasn't criticizing. heh.
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