You seem to be touching on an important issue with this review. The written word is so laden with cultural referentials (we all know "english" to be a product refined by priveledged white dead males; what is grammar but "code language" for oppression, et. al.) that there is virtually no way for you or I to really grasp at anything "true" via the written word. Sure, God chose written words to speak to us--but postmodern linguistics and semiotics has shown us written words are inadequate, at best. Hence, a heavier emphasis on moving picture and story-telling is to be commended. Your review, consciously void of the written word, is commendable. Also, the choice to show an image of "author" (we all know that Roland Barthes declared authoritatively "the death of the author," hence the apostrophes heretofoward around the word author) is fitting and "right" (we all know Kant helped usher in a proper skepticism on all things metaphysical, hence the aposptrohes heretoforward around the word right).
I think silence, textual or otherwise, is a humble approach to your review. You opinions on "Rob Bell's" book, would be in the end, a linguistic word-play (or excercise in power, as we all know through the "writings" of "Foucault") revealing nothing more than your cultural and liguistic surroundings.
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brilliant! Actually a review is forthcoming, but Bell I LOVE the way you applied Bell's theory of language to interpret my unfinished review.
I'm a Rob Bell fan boy.
You seem to be touching on an important issue with this review. The written word is so laden with cultural referentials (we all know "english" to be a product refined by priveledged white dead males; what is grammar but "code language" for oppression, et. al.)
that there is virtually no way for you or I to really grasp at anything "true" via the written word. Sure, God chose written words to speak to us--but postmodern linguistics and semiotics has shown us written words are inadequate, at best. Hence, a heavier emphasis on moving picture and story-telling is to be commended. Your review, consciously void of the written word, is commendable. Also, the choice to show an image of "author" (we all know that Roland Barthes declared authoritatively "the death of the author," hence the apostrophes heretofoward around the word author) is fitting and "right" (we all know Kant helped usher in a proper skepticism on all things metaphysical, hence the aposptrohes heretoforward around the word right).
I think silence, textual or otherwise, is a humble approach to your review. You opinions on "Rob Bell's" book, would be in the end, a linguistic word-play (or excercise in power, as we all know through the "writings" of "Foucault") revealing nothing more than your cultural and liguistic surroundings.
I commend your review.
I got carried away: heretoforward is not a word.
oh well.
joe
I learned somewhere that sarcasm doesn't translate well via computer...
-joe
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