Phonology and linguistics

Linguistics thus wishes to be the science of language.

Let us set aside all the implicit decisions that have established such a project and all the questions about its own origin that the fecundity of this science allows to remain dormant. Let us first simply consider that the scientificity of that science is often acknowledged because of its phonological foundations. Phonology, it is often said today, communicates its scientificity to linguistics, which in turn serves as the epistemological model for all the sciences of man. Since the deliberate and systematic phonological orientation of linguistics (Troubetzkoy, Jakobson, Martinet) carries out an intention which was originally Saussure's, shall we, at least provisionally, confine ourselves to the latter. Will the argument be equally applicable a fortiori to the most accentuated forms of phonologism? The problem at least be stated.

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Writing is not a sign of a sign

The system of writing in general is not exterior to the system of language in general, unless it is granted that the division between exterior and interior passes through the interior of the interior or the exterior of the exterior, to the point where the immanence of language is essentially exposed to the intervention of forces that are apparently alien to its system.

For the same reason, writing in general is not “image” or “figuration” of language in general, except if the nature, the logic, and the functioning of the image within the system from which one wishes to exclude it be reconsidered. Writing is not a sign of a sign, except if one says it of all signs, which would be more profoundly true. If every sign refers to a sign, and if “sign of a sign” signifies writing, certain conclusions — which I shall consider at the appropriate moment will become inevitable.

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Bovarism

Hypertextual continually returns to the theme of changing, transformation and role of narrative, perhaps in an attempt to draw the reader into questioning the future of narrative, specifically as it relates to new media.

Hypertextual wants to define narrative as giving a context in which we can explore -- and subsequently come closer to understanding through further illumination - web behaviors and the numerical condition. We believe that narrative is a method through which we can isolate scriptor's traits, project them beyond ourselves, and contextualize them in a medium which can be used to understand reading behaviors and cultural society.Narrative under this description seems to accord very well with projectionist theories of religion, specifically Feuerbach. Ludwig Feuerbach, in his work, “The Essence of Christianity”, explains religion as man’s projecting his own humanity beyond himself into a transcendent reality in order to understand his own characteristically human experience.

Hypertextual works like this projection. An ideality. The text is projected in a transcendent ideality. And the author is identified with his own words."Madame Bovary, c'est moi !" used to say Gustave Flaubert !

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Writing as a condition of science

Writing is not only an auxiliary means in the service of science and possibly its object — but first, the condition of the possibility of ideal objects and therefore of scientific objectivity.

Before being its object, writing is the condition of science.

The strictest notion of a general science of writing was born, for nonfortuitous reasons, during a certain period of the world's history (beginning around the eighteenth century) and within a certain determined s stem of relationships between “living” speech and inscription.
Historicity itself is tied to the possibility of writing; to the possibility of writing in general, beyond those particular forms of writing in the name of which we have long spoken of peoples without writing and without history. Before being the object of a history — of an historical science — writing opens the field of history — of historical becoming. And the former presupposes the latter.

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Body as a mapped surface

The idea of textuality being connected to representation and thus gender, class, etc. helps us understand more about what's at stake in thinking about the place of the body in relation to electronic realm, specifically through the idea that the body as a mapped surface inscribed by particular constructs can't escape or become dis-imbricated from language, textuality.

Is recognition of this self as text as representation part of what's at stake in moving from "edges" to "surfaces"? I'm wondering if the metaphor of edges refers only to a sort of frontier mentality, or if there are other layers in this term that I'm not getting (from Moulthrop).

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Transmitters of culture

To defend the book just for the form of the codex book is to focus on the box and not the contents.

Publishing does not lack, after all, for examples of industries and bureaucracies that have trained themselves around a particular technology and perished with it. Why should the E-book share this fate? If we fail to understand the expressive environment of our time, we will have failed in our duty as transmitters of culture, whether we think the culture to be preserved consists of Dead White Males with their holy works...

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Related Ideas

With computer technology, it's easy to direct readers to related ideas.

This computer-based glossary is hypertextual: I can refer you to terms like Alexandrine and Postmodern, and you can go directly there — and once there, you can follow links elsewhere. Text turns into a web of connections, and the reader chooses which connections to follow.Metabole is a huge collection of hypertext documents, where each page on the solution can refer to any other page of the hypertext.


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