Explicit and implicit, two oppositions that "derive from the distinction between the manifest and the latent, the discovered and the concealed"(15). Never have I ever been so confused in understanding two opposites before. So I asked myself what is explicit? Macherey states, "That which is formally accounted for, expressed, and even concluded, is explicit: the 'explicit' at the end of the book echoes the 'incipit' at the beginning, and indicates that 'all is (has been) said'." After reading this I believe that explicit is everything we know and implicit, is everything we don't? I am still a little questionable on this reading and hope to better understand it in class.
Silence. The words unspoken are another language in itself. the words unspoken give the words more meaning. it is everything that it is not, made it everything that it is. We touched base a little bit about this in our last class about De Saussure and Barthes. On page 17 Macherey states, "...for in order to say anything, there are other things which must not be said." When writing you have to leave things out in order fully understand something. Silence is not something that means nothing. There is a reasoning behind it. Macherey relates to De Saussure by stating, "...it is impossible to dissemble the truth of language" (19).
The Two questions were confusing to me. When the book started talking about them I immediately got confused and almost shut down. I certainly understand the spoken and the unspoken but the two questions i am having a hard time with. In tomorrow's class I am hoping to get a better understanding of it. I understand on page 23 he lays the first and second question out but I am still struggling with the concept of both.
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I know the reading can be a bit confusing but you have done a good job at beginning to piece everything together for yourself in your blog. I am glad you did not shut down after being faced with the two questions posed in the reading. I am sure tomorrow you will have a much better understanding of it.
-Starfish
thanks for sharing your knowledge and inference, because they are more understandable. I have read Macherey's For a theory of literary production four times, but still couldn't understand the concept of 'the two questions'. also English is my second language, and it makes it harder. if you share your knowledge about the two questions, I would be very glad. thanks for now
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