Carl R Lovitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 744106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl R Lovitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovitt |
| SIGNATURE | LOVITT C R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Power of Babel: A Study of Logophilia
Metaphysical Postulates and Methods of Research
Rene Thom and Le Dibat revive an old metaphysical quarrel. Does chance exist in nature or is it the result of our ignorance of causes, which science has yet to describe? Is chance essential or the product of ignorance? And now the question: Why this question? What is at stake? Why has Rene Thom revived this quarrel? Surely some irritation, some question of mood, which leads one to find a given method of research disagreeable, is not far removed f…
Observations on Determinism and Order
According to Plato, rational phenomena are regular or consistent with laws; in other words, phenomena are fortuitous only if they are rationally inexplicable. Facts subject to chance are not the object of science. That which is random cannot be known. In privileging deterministic models Thom could be drawing on a philosophical tradition that goes back to Plato and that identifies rationality and legality. Since Newton, it has been customary to co…
Permanence and Change
(. . .) Since nothing is created, nor lost, nor changed, how could an object be numbered among beings after it has been modified? (. . .) If, in fact, several distinct objects exist, I should be able to say that each is the one (the being). For if there is earth, water, air, fire, iron, life and death, white and black, and everything else, all things that are said to be real, it is necessary that each thing be as it was perceived and interpreted …
The Longest Night
Last night I watched Our Town. I had forgotten how deeply moving the conclusion: a basic yet ironically pathetic affirmation of life-basic in its insistence upon pervasive, simple pleasures fundamental to the fact of existence; ironic and pathetic in that such affirmation comes only from the dead: They don't understand, do they? Fretful, guilt-ridden, pursuing objectives we neither challenge nor examine, misplacing priorities, we supplant any pos…
On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life
The Psychological Structure of Fascism
Having affirmed that the infrastructure of a society ultimately determines or conditions the superstructure, Marxism did not undertake any general elucidation of the modalities peculiar to the formation of religious and political society. While Marxism did acknowledge possible responses by the superstructure it has not gone from mere assertion to scientific analysis. This essay attempts a rigorous (if not comprehensive) representation of the soci…
The Book to Come Is a Theater
Mixed and Misbegotten Metaphors: Text as Translation as Text
A malformed skeleton rationalized as idiosyncratic, its syntax-a faulty guaranteel-conforms uncomfortably to convoluted constructions, its weight cautiously distributed to reduce stress on fragile approximations, while strenuously compensating for center of gravity displaced by flaying participles, each movement painful reminder of its pock-marked topography of pores and pimples from irregularities in register, uncertain of its decisions, anticip…
Reading and Producing Theater
Danielle Kaisergruber, Carl R. Lovitt, Roland A. Champagne, Reading and Producing Theater, SubStance, Vol. 6/7, No. 18/19, Theater in France: Ten Years of Research (Winter, 1977 - Spring, 1978), pp. 163-171
Literary Code(s) and Ideology: Towards a Contestation of Semiology
Out of the euphoria which followed upon the advances of linguistics, there appeared on the horizon of the sciences of man the figure of a possible science of meaning: semiology. It satisfied the requirements for both generalisation and formalisation which, in our tradition, characterize a discipline as scientific. As science, it created its own lexicon and metalanguage. So, owing to the conceptual unity of the metadiscourse2, the term code serves…
"The Fictional Development in "Le Maintien de l'Ordre
determining role played by the work of Claude Ollier in the genesis and orientation of the nouveau roman has been obscured by the kind of tacit censorship which arises in the face of any truly innovative project challenging established norms. Even more than Robbe-Grillet, and perhaps even more than Michel Butor, he exploits the newly created vision in order to pursue a systematic program of writing. A fusion of theory and practice this writing es…
Interview with Claude Ollier
Toward a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Just as the critique of political economy set for itself the task of analyzing the commodity-form, the Critique of the political economy of the sign intends to do so of the sign-form. As the commodity is both exchange value and use value-requiring that a total analysis of this form consider both slopes of the system-so too is the sign both signifier (Sr) and signified (Sd); the analysis of the sign-form must therefore proceed at both levels. Of c…
Interview with Michel Leiris
Locus Solus: Literary Solitaire
Ca
India (The Black and the Archipelago) on Fire
We imagine a cloud of atoms as a disintegrated coherence or as one to be formed. The dispersion of spars beneath the hurricane, the decomposition of bodies at the Athens plague, the primitive aggregation at the dawn of Clinamen. Born of dust and returned to dust. Each thing grasped in the cycle of pulverulence and formation, of fermentation and putrescence. Direct experience imposes basic facts. Most solids do not melt in water, whence the call o…
On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life
The Psychological Structure of Fascism
Having affirmed that the infrastructure of a society ultimately determines or conditions the superstructure, Marxism did not undertake any general elucidation of the modalities peculiar to the formation of religious and political society. While Marxism did acknowledge possible responses by the superstructure it has not gone from mere assertion to scientific analysis. This essay attempts a rigorous (if not comprehensive) representation of the soci…
Toward a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Just as the critique of political economy set for itself the task of analyzing the commodity-form, the Critique of the political economy of the sign intends to do so of the sign-form. As the commodity is both exchange value and use value-requiring that a total analysis of this form consider both slopes of the system-so too is the sign both signifier (Sr) and signified (Sd); the analysis of the sign-form must therefore proceed at both levels. Of c…
Interview with Michel Leiris
India (The Black and the Archipelago) on Fire
We imagine a cloud of atoms as a disintegrated coherence or as one to be formed. The dispersion of spars beneath the hurricane, the decomposition of bodies at the Athens plague, the primitive aggregation at the dawn of Clinamen. Born of dust and returned to dust. Each thing grasped in the cycle of pulverulence and formation, of fermentation and putrescence. Direct experience imposes basic facts. Most solids do not melt in water, whence the call o…
Locus Solus: Literary Solitaire
Ca
Interview with Michel Leiris
Literary Code(s) and Ideology: Towards a Contestation of Semiology
Out of the euphoria which followed upon the advances of linguistics, there appeared on the horizon of the sciences of man the figure of a possible science of meaning: semiology. It satisfied the requirements for both generalisation and formalisation which, in our tradition, characterize a discipline as scientific. As science, it created its own lexicon and metalanguage. So, owing to the conceptual unity of the metadiscourse2, the term code serves…
"The Fictional Development in "Le Maintien de l'Ordre
determining role played by the work of Claude Ollier in the genesis and orientation of the nouveau roman has been obscured by the kind of tacit censorship which arises in the face of any truly innovative project challenging established norms. Even more than Robbe-Grillet, and perhaps even more than Michel Butor, he exploits the newly created vision in order to pursue a systematic program of writing. A fusion of theory and practice this writing es…
Interview with Claude Ollier
Toward a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Just as the critique of political economy set for itself the task of analyzing the commodity-form, the Critique of the political economy of the sign intends to do so of the sign-form. As the commodity is both exchange value and use value-requiring that a total analysis of this form consider both slopes of the system-so too is the sign both signifier (Sr) and signified (Sd); the analysis of the sign-form must therefore proceed at both levels. Of c…
The Book to Come Is a Theater
Mixed and Misbegotten Metaphors: Text as Translation as Text
A malformed skeleton rationalized as idiosyncratic, its syntax-a faulty guaranteel-conforms uncomfortably to convoluted constructions, its weight cautiously distributed to reduce stress on fragile approximations, while strenuously compensating for center of gravity displaced by flaying participles, each movement painful reminder of its pock-marked topography of pores and pimples from irregularities in register, uncertain of its decisions, anticip…
Reading and Producing Theater
Danielle Kaisergruber, Carl R. Lovitt, Roland A. Champagne, Reading and Producing Theater, SubStance, Vol. 6/7, No. 18/19, Theater in France: Ten Years of Research (Winter, 1977 - Spring, 1978), pp. 163-171
The Psychological Structure of Fascism
Having affirmed that the infrastructure of a society ultimately determines or conditions the superstructure, Marxism did not undertake any general elucidation of the modalities peculiar to the formation of religious and political society. While Marxism did acknowledge possible responses by the superstructure it has not gone from mere assertion to scientific analysis. This essay attempts a rigorous (if not comprehensive) representation of the soci…
The Longest Night
Last night I watched Our Town. I had forgotten how deeply moving the conclusion: a basic yet ironically pathetic affirmation of life-basic in its insistence upon pervasive, simple pleasures fundamental to the fact of existence; ironic and pathetic in that such affirmation comes only from the dead: They don't understand, do they? Fretful, guilt-ridden, pursuing objectives we neither challenge nor examine, misplacing priorities, we supplant any pos…
On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life
The Power of Babel: A Study of Logophilia
Metaphysical Postulates and Methods of Research
Rene Thom and Le Dibat revive an old metaphysical quarrel. Does chance exist in nature or is it the result of our ignorance of causes, which science has yet to describe? Is chance essential or the product of ignorance? And now the question: Why this question? What is at stake? Why has Rene Thom revived this quarrel? Surely some irritation, some question of mood, which leads one to find a given method of research disagreeable, is not far removed f…
Observations on Determinism and Order
According to Plato, rational phenomena are regular or consistent with laws; in other words, phenomena are fortuitous only if they are rationally inexplicable. Facts subject to chance are not the object of science. That which is random cannot be known. In privileging deterministic models Thom could be drawing on a philosophical tradition that goes back to Plato and that identifies rationality and legality. Since Newton, it has been customary to co…
Permanence and Change
(. . .) Since nothing is created, nor lost, nor changed, how could an object be numbered among beings after it has been modified? (. . .) If, in fact, several distinct objects exist, I should be able to say that each is the one (the being). For if there is earth, water, air, fire, iron, life and death, white and black, and everything else, all things that are said to be real, it is necessary that each thing be as it was perceived and interpreted …
Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)