tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-756385795555007551.post6326406971595919219..comments2023-10-14T23:57:35.061-07:00Comments on Fists & Angles, Christs & Angels: Books on Deck / Up Next - Pt. XBuchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09297948322445910219noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-756385795555007551.post-66313733228543869422013-01-07T09:31:53.828-08:002013-01-07T09:31:53.828-08:00I have Deconstruction in Context in my library. I...I have Deconstruction in Context in my library. I bought it while still an undergraduate at Long Beach State, back in 96 or 97. The book was required reading for an advanced course in Deconstruction. We studied the works of Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nitezsche, and of course the postmodernists and poststructuralists like Bataille, Derrida, etc. I remember it being a challenging course. We did get as far as Blanchot. My last note in the margins of the book read, "Technology has made the universe smaller, yet it has been unable to alleviate the burden such knowledge (of having shrunken the world) brings." I think what underlies this statement is the question I posed at the beginning of the book. How can a book relate to other people, other books even, if the postmodernist book is self-referential? If a book relates to only itself and not to an other, God, nature, objects, then can it be a vehicle of communication, or at very least an epistemological object? These were some of the things I was wrestling with back then. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01013991603311573787noreply@blogger.com