Original scientific paper
SUBVERSION, INVERSION, PERVERSION – THREE ESSAYISTIC STRATEGIES OF AN ENGAGED SUBJECT
Jela Sabljić Vujica
; University of Mostar
Abstract
Postmodern interpretation of reality as a permanently through discourse mediated construct has a
double implication. Firstly discourse resresents not only reality but it also presupposes it: it becomes
its substitute (Baudrillard). The interpretation of reality at this level implicates its sign configuration.
Secondly self-sufficiency of a discourse presupposes its incompleteness: it is conceived in the
purity of difference (Derrida) and therefore sentences to inauthentic repetition. The inability of
wholesome creation of reality at this level implies the inability of absolute reality criticism. This
paper aims at pointing out those subjective expressions that through special, local interventions interfere
into already made reality and hence critically provoke the basic metalanguage of postmodern
implications. The essayistic fragments of Benjamin (Oneway street), Adorno (Minima Moralia)
and Spicer (Thre Marxist Essays), through subversion, inversion and perversion have managed,
respectively, to preserve the discoursive praxis from the obligation of inauthentic repetition. In this
manner, the ways of real intervention are connected to the ways of a possible emancipation.
Keywords
Essay; fragment; subversion; inversion; perversion
Hrčak ID:
233776
URI
Publication date:
4.6.2019.
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