Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: ``Text'' (Was: Re: semiotics) Message-ID: <6807@uwm.edu> Date: 8 Oct 90 12:48:41 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Distribution: comp Lines: 36 From article , by richard@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard Hagen): > > On 7 Oct 90 21:48:51 GMT, > eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) said: >> That's what Derrida says, and that's why "there is nothing beyond the >> text." > > Ok, could someone explain what the semiotics people mean by the word ``text''? > > richard It depends entirely on which ones you ask. And I think I'd withhold judgment on whether Derrida counts as one of them or not. It's hard to get a straight answer... much less a straight question... from these boys and girls. (ex: the text is that through which the author's absence is presenced....like that.) And just in case you haven't heard this one.... "What do you get when you cross a Deconstructionist with a Mafia hitman?" "You get an offer you can't understand." -) hiho -- mark peterson | hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | "If you can think of a thing, dept of philosophy | voice: (414)335-5200 | it must exist somewhere." uw-washington county | | west bend, wi. "home of the electric wok."