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...semiotician's practiced eye, society's every phenomenon and event is a text inviting interpretation, an opportunity for writing oneself into the margins of the scene as reader-critic-author. Not that the margins are without their privileges. Blonsky observes--as no less than a cataclysm--the recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto...
...enormous void of his hours, Copito de Nieve never abandons the tire...From it he can have a glimpse of what for man is the search for an escape from the dismay of living--investing oneself in things, recognizing oneself in signs, transforming the world into a collection of symbols--a first daybreak of culture in the long biological night...
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, on his media shyness: "America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance...
...agreement: proximity. "You pick on what's close," says Social Worker Evans. Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint suggests in his book Why Blacks Kill Blacks that such violence is a manifestation of self-hatred and repressed rage, which he says are a legacy of racism. Killing someone who mirrors oneself is a reflection of hating oneself. "Violence can be a potent drug for the oppressed person," Poussaint says. "Reacting to the futility of his life, the individual derives an ultimate sense of power when he holds the fate of another human being in his hands." Poussaint goes...
...personal ad is an odd art form, a song of oneself that is also a plea, a form of courtship both funny and forlorn...