![]() ![]() But now it seems more like a late-night conversation with really good friends, when the bullshit stops and the masks come off.” Books sort people the way conversations sort people: the talk you have with your mom on Saturday morning is not the talk you have with your boss on Friday afternoon, and certainly not the talk you have with your best buddies on Saturday night. “When I was younger,” David Foster Wallace explains in a 1996 interview with The Boston Phoenix, “I saw my relationship with the reader as a sort of sexual one. I would argue that books like Infinite Jest identify you–your affiliations, your beliefs and values, your politics–with the same degree of accuracy as monster truck rallies. Like lovers and assholes (and reviews), books sort readers. In a 1997 Charlie Rose interview, when asked about the hundreds of footnotes scattered through Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace claimed that he needed some way to disrupt the linearity of the text short of making it unreadable, that writing requires “some interplay between how difficult you make it for the reader and how seductive.” Accidents, guesses gone wrong, uneaten entrees: these are what make us whole.Īphorism of the Day II: There’s no better punchline than missing the punchline–unless you happen to be the punchline. In fact, grammatology is a type of knowledge rather than a science.Aphorism of the Day: Particular people are narrow people precisely because they always know what they like. ![]() While he thinks of grammatology as a science (in order to distinguish it from historical studies of writing), it is clearly not a positivistic science. Is Derrida a postmodernist?ĭerrida, as a postmodern thinker, has created a science of writing which he calls ‘grammatology’. Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean- François Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing, comprehensive account to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena based upon the appeal to universal truth or universal values. Lyotard also emphasised on postmodernism’s view of language as incapable of representing reality, owing to the endless chain of signifiers without a signified. Postmodernism criticises and disbelieves in metanarratives and focuses on mini/local narratives or petit recits. ![]() What criticisms do postmodernists make of meta narratives? Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing, comprehensive account to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena based upon the appeal to universal truth or universal values. Plate tectonics, evolution by means of natural selection, steady-state equilibrium, and balance-of-nature are all examples of metanarratives used (for good or ill) in Earth and environmental sciences. Lyotard famously defines the postmodern as ‘incredulity towards metanarratives,’ where metanarratives are understood as totalising stories about history and the goals of the human race that ground and legitimise knowledges and cultural practises. Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was a French philosopher whose best known work-often to his chagrin-was his 1979 The Postmodern Condition.
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