E 341 Lecture Notes - Crass, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon
Document Summary
1980"s 90"s movement that does away with historical background concepts and argues for a parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts from same historical moment. You can never have a direct, immediate access to any historical fact or event. Any event that happened in the past is preserved in a textual form (mostly). History is a textual record of the past. and texts, we know (as good derridans), are not a reliable vehicle of the real. On top of that, a text has an author. And all authors, as marxists like althusser tell us, are always interpellated by isas, implicated in the ideologies of their historical moment, and never really have access to truth . To add to this distance from history", we, the readers of historical texts, are ourselves ideologically conditioned everything we read is being mediated by the ideologies that inscribe us.
