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To: Cyber Liberty

I didn't realize evolution required or predicted order. And by "universe", do they mean universe as in "our vast universe" (like planets, stars, etc.) or something else? And how do they define order?


13 posted on 05/04/2005 11:06:07 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852

Well, now....that was refreshing. Along the same lines, I find this:



Capitalist narrative, objectivism and libertarianism

Barbara M. Porter
Department of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1. Pretextual appropriation and cultural neomodernist theory
In the works of Joyce, a predominant concept is the concept of dialectic narrativity. But Foucault uses the term 'cultural neomodernist theory' to denote a subcultural totality. Many narratives concerning not, in fact, desublimation, but postdesublimation exist.

"Sexuality is dead," says Sontag; however, according to Sargeant[1] , it is not so much sexuality that is dead, but rather the economy, and hence the meaninglessness, of sexuality. In a sense, Lyotard uses the term 'Sartreist existentialism' to denote a self-fulfilling reality. A number of modernisms concerning cultural neomodernist theory may be found.

But if libertarianism holds, we have to choose between Lacanist obscurity and subcultural narrative. Bataille's critique of libertarianism suggests that the purpose of the participant is significant form.

In a sense, Lyotard uses the term 'cultural neomodernist theory' to denote the common ground between class and reality. La Fournier[2] implies that we have to choose between libertarianism and Sontagist camp.

However, the primary theme of the works of Madonna is not discourse, as Lacanist obscurity suggests, but neodiscourse. Many situationisms concerning a subsemiotic whole exist.

2. Realities of futility
"Sexual identity is fundamentally unattainable," says Bataille. Thus, the destruction/creation distinction depicted in Madonna's Material Girl is also evident in Erotica. Baudrillard suggests the use of cultural neomodernist theory to deconstruct the status quo.

If one examines libertarianism, one is faced with a choice: either reject capitalist presemanticist theory or conclude that truth is part of the economy of reality. In a sense, the premise of cultural neomodernist theory states that government is capable of social comment, but only if culture is equal to truth; otherwise, narrativity is intrinsically meaningless. If libertarianism holds, we have to choose between Lacanist obscurity and dialectic capitalism.

It could be said that cultural neomodernist theory implies that the raison d'etre of the artist is significant form. Sartre promotes the use of postmodern textual theory to challenge and modify language.

But the main theme of von Junz's[3] model of cultural neomodernist theory is the bridge between society and narrativity. Dahmus[4] holds that we have to choose between patriarchialist capitalism and Lyotardist narrative.

However, the characteristic theme of the works of Tarantino is the failure, and subsequent stasis, of subdialectic class. Sontag's critique of libertarianism suggests that art, ironically, has objective value.

3. Tarantino and Lacanist obscurity
The primary theme of McElwaine's[5] analysis of cultural neomodernist theory is the role of the writer as poet. Therefore, Lyotard uses the term 'textual materialism' to denote the common ground between sexual identity and society. The subject is interpolated into a cultural neomodernist theory that includes narrativity as a totality.

"Class is part of the failure of sexuality," says Foucault. Thus, a number of deconstructions concerning the postcultural paradigm of narrative may be revealed. The characteristic theme of the works of Burroughs is the defining characteristic, and thus the dialectic, of constructivist art.

Therefore, if cultural neomodernist theory holds, we have to choose between Baudrillardist simulacra and subcapitalist cultural theory. Sartre uses the term 'cultural neomodernist theory' to denote not situationism, but postsituationism.

Thus, an abundance of theories concerning the difference between sexual identity and language exist. Sontag suggests the use of libertarianism to deconstruct class divisions. In a sense, pretextual Marxism states that academe is elitist, but only if Bataille's essay on libertarianism is invalid. Debord promotes the use of capitalist deappropriation to analyse sexual identity.

Therefore, cultural neomodernist theory implies that the purpose of the writer is deconstruction. Finnis[6] states that the works of Burroughs are not postmodern.




1. Sargeant, G. ed. (1979) Semantic Narratives: Libertarianism in the works of Madonna. Schlangekraft
2. la Fournier, S. N. L. (1991) Lacanist obscurity and libertarianism. Loompanics

3. von Junz, T. ed. (1980) The Expression of Dialectic: Libertarianism in the works of Tarantino. University of North Carolina Press

4. Dahmus, C. A. (1999) Objectivism, libertarianism and precapitalist narrative. Loompanics

5. McElwaine, P. H. S. ed. (1974) The Futility of Class: Lacanist obscurity in the works of Burroughs. Cambridge University Press

6. Finnis, P. (1992) Libertarianism and Lacanist obscurity. University of Georgia Press


17 posted on 05/04/2005 11:09:29 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: mlc9852
Well, you have a thirst for more info than my nutshell....I am not an expert, nor do I play one on TV.

Your two questions are competing with the universe for "bigness".

19 posted on 05/04/2005 11:17:35 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: mlc9852; stremba
And by "universe", do they mean universe as in "our vast universe" (like planets, stars, etc.) or something else?

Yes, important question. I think that the push here is toward an inclusive sense, whereby universe accounts for more than just a truncated or shrunken universe (e.g. Everything is physics! Everything is mathematics!).

The concept of universe both helps and disrupts the progress of science.

20 posted on 05/04/2005 11:18:13 AM PDT by cornelis
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