> Divorced from a text and
> context a great deal of writing suffers. In any case, I'm not sure I want
> my theory spoon-fed to me in easily digestible (read comprehensible) chunks.
> Best wishes.
> Stuart
Is there an occluded middle here? I agree that writing can easily be
made to appear absurd by removing it from its context, but what are
you saying here: that most post-whateverist writing IS actually
perfectly comprehensible when read in context - or that even in
context it is incomprehensible (to all but the initiated), and that's
how it should remain?
If writing can be clear, why shouldn't it be so? I am not questioning
the need for specialist terms, or doubting that some ideas are
complex and require work - but is this really the only reason why so
much writing is - to many people - nigh on unintelligible?
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Quentin Merritt
School of Humanities, University of Greenwich
Wellington Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6PF, UK
Tel. +44 (0)181 331 9065
Fax. +44 (0)181 331 8805
E-mail: j.q.merritt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> context a great deal of writing suffers. In any case, I'm not sure I want
> my theory spoon-fed to me in easily digestible (read comprehensible) chunks.
> Best wishes.
> Stuart
Is there an occluded middle here? I agree that writing can easily be
made to appear absurd by removing it from its context, but what are
you saying here: that most post-whateverist writing IS actually
perfectly comprehensible when read in context - or that even in
context it is incomprehensible (to all but the initiated), and that's
how it should remain?
If writing can be clear, why shouldn't it be so? I am not questioning
the need for specialist terms, or doubting that some ideas are
complex and require work - but is this really the only reason why so
much writing is - to many people - nigh on unintelligible?
============================================================
Quentin Merritt
School of Humanities, University of Greenwich
Wellington Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6PF, UK
Tel. +44 (0)181 331 9065
Fax. +44 (0)181 331 8805
E-mail: j.q.merritt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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