Friday 16 September 2011

The "text"

In post-structuralism (Derrida) 'text' has come to be considered a term for all phenomena that can be classified. Such openness of interpretation leads to the question, are some texts more open than others?

Are all 'texts' the same? c.f taxonomies of systems

Are they related at other levels? or are they closed from each other (Discourse closure)?

“A system is a family of meaningful relationship among the members acting as a whole.” This is our working definition of General systems. ISSS

Systems can be seen as having different types - Designed Abstract, Designed Physical, Natural
Different levels of complexity. Systems have emergent properties, this does not relate to authoritarian hieracy although it has been used as an excuse

The 'text' is a modernist  invention along with the academy
It has been adapted via "intertextuality" and...

Natural systems exhibit complimentarily, self similarity and and abscense of absolute boundary
Conceptual systems exhibit absolute boundaries and oppositions...


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