jordy: pleasure of text

Pleasure of text:

The pleasure of text is sanctioned Babel.

Terminology: margin indecision: the distinction will not be the source of absolute classification, the paradigm will falter, and the meaning will be precarious revocable, reversible, the discourse incomplete.

Does writing in pleasure guarantee – guarantee me, the writer – my reader’s pleasure? Not at all, I must seek out this reader with out knowing where he is.

Neurosis: every writer’s motto: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. (Page 5)

… The text you write must prove to me that it desires me…

Language is redistributed
- Achieved by cutting
- Two edges created
1. Obedient and conformist
2. Mobile, blank, Death of language is glimpsed… (page 5)

Duplicity: two edges

“ The subversive edge may seem privileged be/c it is the edge of violence: but I is not violence which affects pleasure wants is the site of a loss, the seam, the cut, the deflation, the dissolve which seizes the subject in the midst of bliss. Culture thus recurs as an edge: in no matter what form” (page 7)

The edge is the clearest in form of materiality…?

“Everything is attacked, dismantled: ideological structures, intellectual solidarities, the propriety of idioms, and the sacred armature of syntax : the text no linger has the sentence for its model… a gush of words , ribbon of infra-language.”

Flaubert: a way of cutting, of perforating discourse without rendering it meaningless.

… There is no longer anything, but language.

Status of discourse: narrative is dismantled yet the story is till readable:
- Controlled discontinuities
- Faked conformities
- Indirect destructions

Oedipus

Pleasure of performance: the feat is sustaining the mimesis of language (language imitating itself)… so radically ambiguous that the text never succumbs to the bad conscience of parody.

Is not the most erotic portion of the body where the garment gapes?
- No “erogenous zone”
- Intermittence which is erotic (skin flashing b/w 2 articles of clothing)
- It is the flashing itself which seduces
- Appearance as disappearance

“The pleasure of text is not the pleasure if the corporeal striptease or the narrative suspense. In these cases there is no tear or edges; a gradual unveiling.”(page 10)

“We do not read everything with the same intensity of reading: a rhythm is established, a casual, unconcerned with the integrity of the text”

Skip boring… get to the good parts (always articulations… whatever further reveals the riddle, the revelation of the fate)

Like someone hastily ripping off a strippers clothing in the same order.

The writer cannot choose what will not be read… yet is the very rhythm of what is read and what is not read that creates the pleasure of the great narratives.

What is not enjoyed in a narrative is not directly its content or even structure, but its abrasions. (page 11)

I read on
I skip
I look up
I dig in again

Pleasure of text: what is it for me? Cannot be associated good or bad pleasure… it is subjective. It cannot be too much this… to little that.

The text that comes from culture and does not break with it

There is not behind the text, someone active (the writer) and out front someone passive (the reader) there is not a subject and an object.

Text: the certain body (i.e. anatomy, biology, psychology… etc)

The pleasure of text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas – for my body does not have the same ideas I do.

A text of pleasure cannot be anything but short…

Pleasure can very well take form of a drift:
- Drifting occurs whenever I do not respect the whole

Nihilism

Doctrine