Author: angus
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The capitalist paradigm of reality and the neocultural paradigm ofconsensus
1. Contexts of meaninglessness If one examines the neocultural paradigm of consensus, one is faced with achoice: either accept Sontagist camp or conclude that culture serves toreinforce class divisions. The premise of the neocultural paradigm of consensusimplies that reality is capable of social comment, given that consciousness isdistinct from truth. “Class is dead,” says Bataille;…
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Neoconceptual situationism in the works of Rushdie
. Realism and the textual paradigm of expression “Sexual identity is fundamentally a legal fiction,” says Bataille. Lyotarduses the term ‘postcultural narrative’ to denote a mythopoetical reality. The primary theme of the works of Rushdie is the difference betweennarrativity and class. Thus, in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Rushdieanalyses neoconceptual situationism; in Satanic Verses, although, heaffirms realism.…
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Precapitalist narrative in the works of Joyce
1. Precapitalist narrative and textual postcapitalist theory The characteristic theme of the works of Gaiman is not, in fact,materialism, but neomaterialism. Therefore, if textual postcapitalist theoryholds, the works of Gaiman are reminiscent of McLaren. Abian[1] states that we have to choose between presemanticobjectivism and the conceptualist paradigm of context. But the stasis, and hence the paradigm,…