{"id":7286,"date":"2010-09-09T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/theory-blackmai\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:50:57","slug":"theory-blackmai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/theory-blackmai\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory Blackmailed, or Invention Hobbled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Yesterday&#8211;day <em>one<\/em> of teaching in the new semester&#8211;did not quite go as planned, and in the wake of a couple of surprises, I didn&#8217;t get around to posting like I intended to in recognition of the <em>n<\/em>th annual <em>RB<\/em> of September. After a few years such postings carry a some heavy, if solitarily imagined, burden of tradition. Thus, &#8220;theory blackmailed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many (still unpublished) avant-garde texts are <em>uncertain<\/em>: how to judge, to classify them, how to predict their immediate or eventual future? Do they please? Do they bore? Their obvious quality is of an intentional order: they are concerned to serve theory. Yet this quality is a blackmail <em>as well <\/em>(theory blackmailed): love me, keep me, defend me, since I conform to the theory you call for; do I not do what Artaud, Cage, etc. have done? &#8211;But Artaud is not just &#8220;avant-garde&#8221;; he is a kind of writing <em>as well<\/em>; Cage has certain charm as well&#8230; &#8211;But those are <em>precisely<\/em> the attributes which are not recognized by theory, which are sometimes even execrated by theory. At least make your taste and your ideas match, etc. (<em>The scene continues, endlessly.<\/em>) (54)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why blackmailed? Translator Richard Howard could have selected a different connotation of &#8220;la chantage,&#8221; e.g., bluff, or intimidation. When the avante-garde serves theory, theory in turn may be said to hobble invention, to wrap it in a splint, to contain it. I read in this Barthes passage a concern for theory&#8217;s disciplining of innovation.  Unexpectedly, this clicks with concerns in the Introduction and first chapter of Muckelbauer&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Invention-John-Muckelbauer\/dp\/0791474208\">The Future of Invention<\/a><\/em>, a book I&#8217;ve just started. Related are questions about what becomes of &#8220;the attributes which are not recognized by theory,&#8221; put another, perhaps more helpful way, Can theory keep up with avante-garde performances? Must it?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, happy <em>RB<\/em> Day, twice belatedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Yesterday&#8211;day one of teaching in the new semester&#8211;did not quite go as planned, and in the wake of a couple of surprises, I didn&#8217;t get around to posting like I intended to in recognition of the nth annual RB of September. 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