No text is free of other texts.- Ferdinand de Saussure |
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Added: September 2003 |
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| Willbut - 5th September 2003 17:55
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| Language cannot exist in a vacuum, so I think he's right.
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| Casiopea - 26th September 2003 17:35
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| I believe Saussure was advocating that there are no novel ideas in the world; That is, a new idea is not only based within a old idea, and so on, but that even the language used to communicate new ideas is 'not free'.
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| tdol - 6th November 2003 23:42
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| As language is a continuum, there are always going to be connections, aren't there?
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| Joan - 24th November 2003 23:25
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| So nothing can be truly revolutionary?
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| italianbrother - 26th December 2003 02:00
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| As pessimistic as it may sound, we are living in a plagiarised world.
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| italianbrother - 26th December 2003 02:09
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| "So nothing can be truly revolutionary?" It of curse can be, but it is so easy to follow, to be conformist, rather than create etc… etc… it is the true anti-conformist that we need.
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| JT - 15th January 2004 01:59
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| Isn't the revolutionary, by definition, reacting against something. Therefore, the revolutionary text, while advocating a break with the past, is far from free of it.
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| said madhoun - 17th October 2004 14:33
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| That's fantastic
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| santhosh - 23rd August 2007 06:54
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| Thoughts of each man have some sort of link to that of others. One cannot escape from this phenomenon when one express any thing.
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