I would like to preface this post by stating I could be way off, because I feel like I might have understood the reading, but I'm sure once I get to class tomorrow, I'll discover I didn't have a clue.
Macherey seems to largely focus on the barriers language restrict us to. be language is many and varied, we must rely on more than what is said, but also what goes unspoken. Machery states, "Silence reveals speech- unless it is speech that reveals silence." In this statement, Macherey reveals the complexities behind speech and communication, asking us to question how it is we even interpret the spoken and unspoken. Further, he interprets Nietzsche in offering how we are trapped and confounded within language. We are looking beyond what is said to examine what is really meant. In discussing Nietzsche, Macherey introduces the concept of two questions, beginning in a model of an utterance and a question, which form to create a second question, that corrects the error of the first question. The simple critic, yields only at the first question, but it is in the second that true meaning is found. Macherey asks us to look beyond the explicit question and the response it offers to discover the real question that will allow us to make meaning of the text.
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Don't second guess yourself because your post clearly shows that you have a good understanding of the Macherey reading. You have good ideas here. For future posts it would be great if you could write a little more.
-Starfish
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