Abstract
A. L. Beckers modern philology is an approach to discourse rooted in multifaceted explorations of particular texts: a line from Emerson, a Southeast Asian proverb, a Javanese shadow play. He explains autopoiesis this way: One of the tenets of the gaggle of ideas calle autopoiesis is that languaging is orientational, mostly. A says something to B -- and no message is transmitted -- rather what A says orients B (and him/herself, of course). But the orientation of A is not the orientation of B, except to the extent they have the same reactions to prior texts (lingual memories). |
