a home for homeless literature
The Parenthetical Dialogue: Foucault meets CBC
Published Saturday, November 19, 2005 by Jenny Sampirisi | E-mail this post
The Idea: This is a set of quotations found in parenthesis, lifted from Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge and the headline news of CBC (during the labour strike). I alternated between the two. I highly recommend just lifting paranthetical quotes out of their contexts in everything you come across. It's a certain kind of fun.
According to whether the imaginary world to which it refers does or does not authorize such a geological and geographical fantasy
Canada
As in the example: colourless green ideas sleep furiously
To send the DART team to the disaster zone
And these correlations concern a level of reality in which ideas are invisible, and in which colours can be seen, etc.
The heroin and opium trade
And these correlations concern the level of the language, with its laws and properties.
About 1,200 men had been recruited for the regiment. After Passchendaele, 600 had been killed or wounded.
In the example chosen, this would be the spatial inclusion of a particular mountain in a particular region.
It also served in a peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.
Even if they have a certain consistency and a certain coherence
Climate change will not happen uniformly
Face to face, as it were.
Or has not
Or no one
Dialogue
According to whether the imaginary world to which it refers does or does not authorize such a geological and geographical fantasy
Canada
As in the example: colourless green ideas sleep furiously
To send the DART team to the disaster zone
And these correlations concern a level of reality in which ideas are invisible, and in which colours can be seen, etc.
The heroin and opium trade
And these correlations concern the level of the language, with its laws and properties.
About 1,200 men had been recruited for the regiment. After Passchendaele, 600 had been killed or wounded.
In the example chosen, this would be the spatial inclusion of a particular mountain in a particular region.
It also served in a peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.
Even if they have a certain consistency and a certain coherence
Climate change will not happen uniformly
Face to face, as it were.
Or has not
Or no one
previous posts
links
RSS feed
ATOM 0.3
Like waiting against the gymnasium wall at a grade school dance.
I'm still amazed at how well this actually works. I really like the approach of integrating the parenthetical from two disparate texts, disparate in so many different ways. It's like a synthesis of the excluded, of bits of language not permitted full, active integration with their source texts. Maybe I'm reaching, but it seems like an analogous sort of process could be found in the unity occasionally achieved between separate marginalized special interest groups when they come together to achieve a common goal.