"Samuel R. Delany - Flight From Neveryon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Delaney Samuel R)

FLIGHT FROM
NEVÈRŸON
Samuel R. Delany
For
Frank Romeo,
and
Robert Bravard, Camilla Decarnin,
Mike Elkins, Gregory Frux, Robert
Morales, & Michael Peplow, and,
of course,
Iva,
who printed up file “i”




There is no such thing as an absolutely
proper meaning of a word, which is not
made possible by the very impropriety of
metaphorical displacement it seeks to
exclude. The impropriety of displaceability
of meaning and of infinite openness of
syntactic reference beyond that
circumscribed by proper meaning is a
material force. The imposition of a
conclusive, self-identical meaning that
transcends the seriality of displacement is
therefore metaphysical or idealist. Its
political equivalent is the absolute state (be
it dictatorial or liberal) that imposes order
on the displaceability of power through
sedition. The political equivalent of
displacement—that force deconstruction
foregrounds against absolutist philosophies
of identity—is continuous and plural
revolutions, the openness of material
forces which exceeds the imposition of
power.
—Michael Ryan
Marxism and Deconstruction




I

THE TALE OF FOG AND
GRANITE
It can hardly be an accident that the debate proliferates around a
crime story—a robbery and its undoing. Somewhere in each of