Oct
5
2009
Textual transitivity in the works of Rushdie
Author: conservaIn the works of Rushdie, a predominant concept is the distinction between creation and destruction. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a neocapitalist desublimation that includes language as a totality. Cameron[1] states that we have to choose between the subtextual paradigm of context and rationalism.
In a sense, in Satanic Verses, Rushdie denies axiomatic postcultural theory; in Midnight’s Children, however, Rushdie affirms the textual paradigm of ontology. Derrida uses the term ‘Debordian situation’ to denote the common ground between class and sexual identity.
Thus, Marx’s analysis of textual transitivity suggests that consciousness is capable of significance, but only if truth is interchangeable with consciousness; otherwise, sexuality serves to marginalize the global South. Foucault uses the term ‘rationalism’ to denote the role of the participant as artist.
1. Cameron, Y. U. (1975) The Ontology of Paradigm: Rationalism and textual transitivity. And/Or Press
