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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:38:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [dev] A Bakhtinian software
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Ted Byfield and Florian Schneider defined the Virtual Entity as a
Bakhtinian software and research.
This Saturday afternoon at Jan van Eyck a symposium on Bakhtin with
Maurizio Lazzarato, Arianna Bove and others will take place:
http://imaginaryproperty.com/intervention3

BTW, who is Bakhtin?

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Russian:
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[m&#690;&#618;x&#652;&#712;il
m&#690;&#618;&#712;xajl&#601;v&#690;&#618;&#680; b&#652;x&#712;t&#690;in])
(November 17, 1895  March 7, 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary
critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary
and rhetorical theory and criticism. His works, dealing with a variety of
subjects, have inspired groups of thinkers such as neo-Marxists,
structuralists, and semioticians, who have all incorporated Bakhtinian
ideas into theories of their own. As a literary theorist, Bakhtin is
associated with the Russian Formalists, and his work is often compared
with that of Yuri Lotman; in 1963 Roman Jakobson mentioned him as one of
the few intelligent critics of Formalism. In the 1920s there was a
"Bakhtin school" in Russia, in line with the discourse analysis of
Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson.

Toward a Philosophy of the Act

    1. I both actively and passively participate in Being.
    2. My uniqueness is given but it simultaneously exists only to the
degree to which I actualize this uniqueness (in other words, it is in
the performed act and deed that has yet to be achieved).
    3. Because I am actual and irreplaceable I must actualize my uniqueness.

Bakhtin further states: It is in relation to the whole actual unity that
my unique ought arises from my unique place in Being.According to
Bakhtin, the I cannot maintain neutrality toward moral and ethical demands
which manifest themselves as ones voice of consciousness.

It is here also that Bakhtin introduces an architectonic model of the
human psyche which consists of three components: I-for-myself,
I-for-the-other, and other-for-me. The I-for-myself is an unreliable
source of identity, and Bakhtin argues that it is the I-for-the-other
through which human beings develop a sense of identity because it serves
as an amalgamation of the way in which others view me. Conversely,
other-for-me describes the way in which others incorporate my perceptions
of them into their own identities. Identity, as Bakhtin describes it here,
does not belong merely to the individual, rather it is shared by all.

The Dialogic Imagination: Chronotope, Heteroglossia

The Dialogic Imagination is a compilation of four essays concerning
language and the novel: Epic and Novel, From the Prehistory of
Novelistic Discourse, Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel,
and Discourse in the Novel. In the nineteenth century the novel as a
literary genre became increasingly popular, but for most of its history it
has been an area of study often disregarded.

It is through the essays contained within The Dialogic Imagination that
Bakhtin introduces the concepts of heteroglossia, dialogism and
chronotope, making a significant contribution to the realm of literary
scholarship.[18] Bakhtin explains the generation of meaning through the
"primacy of context over text" (heteroglossia), the hybrid nature of
language (polyglossia) and the relation between utterances
(intertextuality).[19] [20] Heteroglossia is "the base condition governing
the operation of meaning in any utterance."[20][21] To make an utterance
means to "appropriate the words of others and populate them with one's own
intention".

From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse is a less traditional essay
in which Bakhtin reveals how various different texts from the past have
ultimately come together to form the modern novel.

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