From: Mac4781@aol.com
The point I was trying to make was that h/cers tend to go on the defensive because there have been attacks on the genre in the past. So their
answers
might be abrupt, simply because they don't want to get into deeper discussions. The subject tends to get controversial, and they are
probably
in fandom as much for the fun of it as I am. Those brief answers just
might
indicate they don't want to be studied
"Mr. Derrida did not seem angry at having to define his philosophy at all; he was even smiling. 'Everything is a text; this is a text,' he said, waving his arm at the diners around him in the bland suburbanlike restaurant, blithely picking at their lunches, completely unaware that they were being 'deconstructed'."
"...the majority of the fifty-four texts focus on various manifestations of mass culture, la culture de masse: films, advertizing, newspapers and magazines, photographs, cars, children's toys, popular pastimes and the like. ... Barthes showed that it was possible to read the 'trivia' of everyday life as full of meanings."
"Barthes accords popular culture a complexity, a density and richness of texture thought to be the sole preserve of high culture."
"If anything is destroyed in a deconstructive reading, it is not the text, but the claim to unequivocal domination of one mode of signifying over another. A deconstructive reading is a reading which analyses the specificity of a text's critical difference from itself."
"Poujade's claim that a dead fish starts to rot from the head down is indicative of petit-bourgeois distrust of intellectuals"
"By accusing a writer of being obscure and lacking 'le bon sens', one can escape serious argument and, more importantly, avoid having to make explicit one's own ideological position."
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assumes its opinion, which then becomes that of the majority, i.e., becomes nonsense...while Truth again reverts to a new minority."
Your turn:)
Neil