ah, is not my type to criticize someone’s ideas, but Cherles Bernstein affirmations intrigue me. I certainly do not agreed with him by simple fact that he’s limiting our thinking. what it differentiate us one from another, is our inner thinking. most of us share same living conditions, but when Bernstein is pointing where the formation of poems resides, it just turn me over.
The marix of social and historical relations are more significant? than any personal qualities of the life or voice of the author? is like you are living, thinking and working for somebody. What do you think? what about your thoughts? can you ever describe what you are felling if your inner voice cannot be heard?
the personal qualities shape the concept of the text, or the poem without being influenced by the society.
July 16, 2007 at 12:17 am
The distinction might rest in the following question: Where do our ideas come from? As tempting as it may be to think that we can invent things that have never before been thought, written, or made, we do so from a distinct place within a complex milieu of discourses and cultural practices. What Bernstein and others might point to, then, is the importance and influence of these discursive practices in the process of invention.