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February 17, 2005
Nothing ever died...
(continuing the discussion from Hosegate, yeah?)
ANALYSIS: Dissection and full enumerative description of a system, with a possible view to exposing the facility of its robotic reproduction, and hence its inherent worthlessness beyond quantifiable production costs. Literally, dissolution. (nb, now synonymous, by a cruel twist of synthetic etymonomy, with the contemporary popular sense of 'deconstruction'. Cue JD spinning in grave.)
IRONY [1]: The reproduction of a given set of behaviours in the form of mere semiotic routine in such a way as to demonstrate the possibility of detaching them from any external epistemological commitments, or reversing their affiliations with such. Marking the de facto obsolescence of such commitments as vertically-integrated effective factors in the production of sense. Reflexive decoding.
PARODY:Intensification of a given trend to extents inevitably "absurd" according to common-sense, so retroactively positioning said trend as latently meaningless, arbitrary, and "unfounded". Efficient exhaustion through unregulated overexploitation.
Q1. Spot the inherent problems in using the above as tactics _against_ the generalised decoding apparatus of capitalism.
IRONY [2]: The simultaneous existence of two apparently antagonistic tendencies. Rarely fatal.
Posted by robin at February 17, 2005 11:21 AM