{"id":1618,"date":"2017-04-24T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T08:20:51","slug":"the-third-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/04\/24\/the-third-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Contextual auto-horizons as determining originary experience of television-serials<\/em><\/strong><em><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Written c.2006<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>1. Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 30 years since the zenith of reader-response criticism, aesthetic theory, as it appears in our venerable institutions, has become increasingly focused on its subject field&#8217;s relevance to fields outside itself. This attempt to self-validate by associating with other (relevantable) disciplines has ironically resulted in aesthetic theory&#8217;s being considered all the less relevant or referentable, sprouting sub-schools by the dozen: structuralism and deconstructuralism (post-structuralism); psychological- [sic], feminist-, queer-, and Marxist-studies; and of course the New Historicists and Cultural Critics who assure us all that they&#8217;re completely different<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following essay suggests an alternative to contemporary academia&#8217;s myopia, and introduces a methodology which builds on Husserl&#8217;s phenomenology<a href=\"#_ftnI\" name=\"_ftnrefI\"><sup>[I]<\/sup><\/a> and especially his determinations of the horizontal dimensions of intentional experience. By the end of the essay this author hopes to have demonstrated: (a) that there exists a <em>third way<\/em> between an object-oriented approach to a fictional paradigm (a la the New Critics and the historiographical critics who were their predecessors) and a subject-oriented approach (which almost inevitably collapses into social criticism); and (b) that there exists a <em>third way<\/em> above the two recognised practices for approaching a fictional paradigm, namely naive immersion<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a> and critical self-awareness. These points will be further described and elaborated upon below.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>2. Pole-dialectics<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first of this essay&#8217;s self-attributed tasks will characterise the two dominant poles of media descriptions before describing an alternative approach which makes use of each of the others&#8217; epistemological strengths whilst allowing a novel existential coherence.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>2.1\u00a0 Implied cybernetics<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">{An OO-interpretation of viewing presumes that the show <em>can<\/em> form a cybernetic system (which here may be understood as a self-contained instantiation of semiotics)}<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>2.2 The lonely subject<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second of the dominant views to be discussed in this section is a non-simple derivative of emphasising that the viewer&#8217;s embrace envelops the shows topology.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>2.2.1 Show topology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An awareness of show-topology includes not only the math-sum of the program&#8217;s unitised elements, but also the reference of those elements to other topologies. Thus this theory is able to explain why temporally or symbolically associated motifs are relevant to a description of a viewing experience; as well as describing the relevance of allusions, parody and satire, appropriation, retro-reincarnation, and presumptions of a viewing literacy.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>2.2.2 Mirrors on the edge of show topology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Show topology presumes the viewer to be allegorically isolated from the television <em>as<\/em> media, instead subliming it into a fused product that annotates the observed facts of the show (even where falsified) into a geography that is intuited as Other.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>3 X<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>3.1 The Idiot<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">by Dostoyevski is recommended as one of the greatest Russian novels.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>3.1.1 Epistemological presumptions of naivety<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>3.1.2 Modes of living cum stepping stones<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">{use the word &#8220;seamen&#8221; here<strong>}<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>3.2 Borgesian abominations and Lacanian reconciliations<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">{mirrors = self-awareness, Lacan&#8217;s mirror stage}<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>3.2.1 Structuralist hopes and Peepers of Ceder City &#8211; de Saussure watches on<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3.2.2 Television 2.0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3.2.3 Death of the &#8220;Pro-sumer&#8221; in a post-Barthes cyborg world<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meaning and the search for it is deconstructed over YouTube; we have returned full circle to the &#8220;hypodermic needle&#8221; theory of the 30s as prosumers fashion meaning through the use of meta tags; reality is constructed by consensus; the economy of meaning represented by a pluralist democracy of ideas {may be prudent to add something quasi-Marxist here}<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>4 The golden mean meets the high road<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">{The ability to show topology to incorporate false annotations is a strength. The fact that it doesn&#8217;t take this further is its most glaring failure}<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This work was made possible by the <em>Iser Grant for Studies into Emergent Media<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conflict of interest: The author declares no conflict of interest aside from the fact that the author&#8217;s position in the department depends on the number of publications and not their quality or originality.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> The following essay was first published in <em>No\u016bs<\/em> (Nov. 1999). It has since been heavily edited so as to present ongoing research as well as to address the various concerns that have been raised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a> This author suggests that both departments at UCLA be shut down until this is resolved!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a> The phrase &#8220;naive immersion&#8221; was coined by myself during a conversation with Roland Barthes, only a few days before the latter&#8217;s passing. Barthes agreed that the phrase is both more descriptive and philologically subversive than &#8220;pre-impression&#8221; (cf. Anton 1997).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/a> Recent research suggests that Hegel is an idiot. This author concurs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-dotted\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:2px;border-color:#2341f8\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnrefI\" name=\"_ftnI\"><sup>[I]<\/sup><\/a> <em>&#8220;<strong>Phenomenology<\/strong> is a broad discipline and method of inquiry in philosophy, developed largely by the German philosophers Edmund <strong>Husserl<\/strong> and Martin Heidegger, which is based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events (&#8220;phenomena&#8221;) as they are perceived or understood in the human consciousness, and not of anything independent of human consciousness.&#8221; For further information see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philosophybasics.com\/branch_phenomenology.html\">https:\/\/www.philosophybasics.com\/branch_phenomenology.html<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contextual auto-horizons as determining originary experience of television-serials[1] Editor\u2019s Note: Written c.2006 1. Introduction In the 30 years since the zenith of reader-response criticism, aesthetic theory, as it appears in our venerable institutions, has become increasingly focused on its subject field&#8217;s relevance to fields outside itself. This attempt to self-validate by associating with other (relevantable) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,103,154,273],"tags":[248],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-essay","category-google-drive","category-satire","tag-borges"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2861,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/05\/15\/kants-third-critique\/","url_meta":{"origin":1618,"position":0},"title":"Kant&#8217;s Third Critique","author":"Pala","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Contents: Some scribblings Per IEP article. 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