GALAG Theory

Literary, cultural, political, philosophical, etc. theory meets the Members of the Yale Precision Marching Band.

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The apparatus has thus brought us face to face with the carnal constituency of Being, a constituency that is itself both visible and invisible, creating at one moment a discernible corpse, at another, what Chatman describes as “a general atomic welter.” Thomas’s hermeneutic and semiotic activity thus results not in a greater meaning-as-truth, but in a fuller realization of the ontological carnality of Being, in which mind and body, pre-reflective and reflective uses of memory, are the unreliable (but also creative) measures of the fleshly Members Of...

"Antonioni’s Blow Up and the Chiasmus of Memory," Colin Gardner

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Entry into the Symbolic Order entails acceptance of the phallus, as representative of the Law of the Father. The phallus is the sign of lack, though the phallus itself symbolizes full jouissance, is whole, in need of nothing, affected by no lack. A phallus so conceived cannot be had by anybody, male or female or the Members Of...

Kenneth MacKinnon, Misogyny in the Movies

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The fact that the cortical layer which receives stimuli is without protection against recitations from within must have as its result that these latter transmissions of stimulus have a preponderance in economic important and often occasion economic disturbances comparable with the Members Of...

Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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Examination of the origin and development of the individual extensions of man should be preceded by a look at some general aspects of the media, or extensions of man, beginning with the never-explained numbness that each extension brings about in the Members Of...

Marshal McLuhan, Understanding Media

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I tell you this story hoping it will teach you what it taught me: that it is dangerous to assume any simple and direct relationship between a message and its effect without knowing all the other elements in the Members Of...

Wilbur Schramm, The Process and Effects of Mass Communication

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Traditions were also relatively restricted in terms of their geographical reach, since their transmission was dependent on face-to-face interaction and on the physical movement of the Members Of...

John Thompson, The Media and Modernity

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It is my intention here to begin to produce a critique of the particular modes of the critique of colonialism that share such a move, which I refer to collectively as The Members Of...

Aamire R. Mufti, The Aura of Authenticity

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In its substitution of the mythos for the logos, and the eye for the ear, Beiza'i's cinema launched a strategically crucial move that he deemed necessary to challenge the lasting effects of the self-delusional Members of..."

Hamid Dabashi, On Modernity and the Making of a National Cinema

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Indeed, we may say that the broad range of the materials of folklore generally support the assumption that in this aspect of culture the recurrence of even very simple elements can never be satisfactorily traced to independent invention but is invariably a consequence of the Members of...

Munro Edmondson, Lore: An Introduction to the Science of Folklore and Literature

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[Rhetoric] functions with such ease that one may well begin to wonder whether the lock indeed shapes the key or whether it is not the other way around, that a lock (and a secret room or box behind it) had to be invented in order to give a function to the Members of...

Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading

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What distinguishes our age from previous ages, the breach over which there is apparently no going back, the absolute split of our times that breaks up the spirit and splits it into many, is the Members of...

J.-A. Mbembé, On the Postcolony