The man who's head expanded

[hirez]

I'll shut up soon. Probably.

So. Panel called 'You're reading it wrong'. Which turned into a head-warping charge through literary theory and (post) structuralism. Utterly bloody marvellous.

I wish to remember the line 'People you dislike become ugly' so I shall write it down. There.

Comments

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

If you fancy condensing the answer into a haiku, what is post-structuralism?

Have two

[andrewducker]

No space for authors
now, in this, our winter of
Infinite Regress

alternatively:

Modernism falls
like the outdated leaves of
discarded meaning

So far as I understand it, Structuralism was about the search for Meaning - it assumed that the structures we saw around us were Real, and that we could join together the signifier (what we say) and the signified (what we refer to) in an absolute and truthful way. Post-structuralism says "Actually, even those relations are governed by the society and environment of the person(s) doing the signifying, so no absolute understanding is possible. The difference is thus essentially similar to the difference between Modernism ("We search for Truth!") and Post-Modernism ("There is no Truth, just lots of useful stories.")

*waits to be killed by a passing critical theorist for mauling things badly*

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Succinctly put. I particularly like the second one.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

People you like become beautiful.

Neither state is necessarily permament.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

It was lovely to see you at Eastercon, and I'm glad you enjoyed the Reading It Wrong panel. Friend fjm for more head-warping pronouncements, she's awfully good at them (as well as being lovely) :)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

And also with you. It was all a bit startling to begin with, but splendid fun once I got the hang of it. Although I was rendered brain-dead by Monday so was just sitting there like a lemon.

[FX: Friends-list furtling]

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Sitting there like a lemon = my default state at conventions (you may have noticed this on Sunday morning). So at least there is company :)