Nietzsche – On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral (Extra-Moral) Sense

Nietzsche – On Truth and Lies in the Nonmoral Sense In this essay Nietzsche is claiming that all language is fundamentally metaphorical.  Language has no relationship with the “real” world and, therefore, is never literal – it is always a system that depends on arbitrary comparison: metaphor.  This has far-ranging implications because it means that truth – as a linguistic construct – is just that – constructed.  This is certainly... Read More

Jakobson – Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem

Roman Jakobson – Aphasia as a Linguistic Problem Aphasia is derived from the Greek word aphatos – meaning speechless. In other words, this is what happens when you simply can’t remember a word/phrase/idea.  The term/concept has been pathologized into various disorders including dysphasia and aphasia. Jakobson is a structuralist – this means he viewed language as having a particular structure; however, that... Read More

Cohen – Copyright, Commodification, and Culture: Locating the Public Domain

Cohen, Julie.  “Copyright, Commodification, and Culture:  Locating the Public Domain.”  The Future of the Public Domain : Identifying the Commons in Information Law. Eds. Lucie M Guibault and C. R. Hugenholtz.  Information Law Series. Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International: Frederick, Md., 2006. Print. This article understands that there are two sides to the copyright argument: copyleftists say that copyright threatens the public... Read More

CCR691 – Week 3 – Ch. 2 Blog for Comment

Chapter 2 : Poetics and Narrativity:  How Texts Tell Stories – Phillip Eubanks Main Claims / Executive Summary In this chapter, Eubanks sets out to reclaim narrative and metaphorical criticism from the hands of “traditional poetics” in order to recognize how influential narrative and metaphor are to the creation of meaning in daily life. To achieve this, he begins by grounding  the all-pervasiveness of narrativity in two areas:... Read More