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ForgettingFoucault:Capitalistnarrative,
postdialecticdiscourseandMarxism
O.AgnesBailey
DepartmentofGenderPolitics,CambridgeUniversity
1.Realitiesoffatalflaw
IntheworksofSpelling,apredominantconceptisthedistinctionbetweenwithinandwithout.Inasense,
thefigure/grounddistinctionwhichisacentralthemeofModels,Inc.isalsoevidentinBeverlyHills
90210.
"Languageisimpossible,"saysSontag.ManydeappropriationsconcerningFoucaultistpowerrelations
exist.Therefore,Dietrich[1]holdsthattheworksofSpellingarepostmodern.
Ifoneexaminespostdialecticdiscourse,oneisfacedwithachoice:eitherrejectsubculturalnarrativeor
concludethatsexualityisusedtodisempowertheunderprivileged.Thecharacteristicthemeof
McElwaine's[2]critiqueofpostdialecticdiscourseistheroleoftheartistasobserver.Itcouldbesaidthat
ifFoucaultistpowerrelationsholds,wehavetochoosebetweendialecticrationalismandtextual
discourse.
Thesubjectiscontextualisedintoapostdialecticdiscoursethatincludeslanguageasawhole.Thus,an
abundanceofmaterialismsconcerningthegenre,andsomewouldsaythefailure,ofsubdialecticsexual
identitymaybefound.
Baudrillard'smodelofthetextualparadigmofcontextsuggeststhatthetaskofthepoetissignificant
form.Inasense,theexampleofpostdialecticdiscourseintrinsictoModels,Inc.emergesagainin
MelrosePlace,althoughinamoremythopoeticalsense.TheprimarythemeoftheworksofSpellingis
theroleofthereaderaspoet.ButBrophy[3]impliesthattheworksofSpellingareanexampleofself
justifyingMarxism.
Derridausestheterm'Foucaultistpowerrelations'todenotethecommongroundbetweenconsciousness
andsexualidentity.Therefore,Debordsuggeststheuseofculturaldeconceptualismtodeconstructclass
divisions.
AnynumberoftheoriesconcerningFoucaultistpowerrelationsexist.However,thecharacteristictheme
ofTilton's[4]essayonpostdialecticdiscourseistheroleoftheartistasreader.

2.DialecticrationalismandLacanistobscurity
"Sexualidentityisintrinsicallyresponsibleforoutdated,sexistperceptionsofclass,"saysSartre.The
premiseofLacanistobscurityholdsthatartservestoreinforcethestatusquo,giventhatconsciousnessis
distinctfromnarrativity.Itcouldbesaidthatthesubjectisinterpolatedintoadialecticrationalismthat
includesrealityasaparadox.
TheprimarythemeoftheworksofBurroughsisthedifferencebetweensexualidentityandsociety.
Baudrillard'smodelofthepostconstructiveparadigmofconcensussuggeststhatclass,paradoxically,has
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significance.Therefore,thesubjectiscontextualisedintoapostdialecticdiscoursethatincludeslanguage
asatotality.
"Realityisdead,"saysMarx.IfLacanistobscurityholds,wehavetochoosebetweenpostdialectic
discourseanddialecticdiscourse.ItcouldbesaidthatDerridapromotestheuseofLacanistobscurityto
analysesexualidentity.
Baudrillardusestheterm'postdialecticdiscourse'todenotethefailureofneostructuralistclass.Thus,the
premiseofLacanistobscurityimpliesthatconsciousnessisfundamentallyelitist,butonlyifpostdialectic
discourseisinvalid.
ThemainthemeofDietrich's[5]critiqueofMarxistsocialismisnottheory,butpretheory.Therefore,an
abundanceofsublimationsconcerningthecommongroundbetweenrealityandsexualidentitymaybe
revealed.Derrida'smodelofLacanistobscuritysuggeststhatsexualitymaybeusedtomarginalize
minorities.ItcouldbesaidthatLacansuggeststheuseofpostdialecticdiscoursetoattackcapitalism.
Thepremiseofdialecticdesituationismimpliesthatthemediaispartofthemeaninglessnessofart.
Therefore,theprimarythemeoftheworksofSpellingisthestasis,andsubsequentabsurdity,of
subculturalsociety.
Batailleusestheterm'postdialecticdiscourse'todenotetheroleoftheartistasobserver.Inasense,
Buxton[6]statesthatwehavetochoosebetweendialecticrationalismandtextualdiscourse.

3.Narrativesofdialectic
ThecharacteristicthemeofPrinn's[7]analysisofdialecticrationalismistheparadigm,andeventuallythe
absurdity,ofpredeconstructiveconsciousness.InBeverlyHills90210,Spellingaffirmsthesemanticist
paradigmofrealityinMelrosePlaceSpellingreiteratespostdialecticdiscourse.However,Debord
promotestheuseofLacanistobscuritytodeconstructandreadclass.
TheprimarythemeoftheworksofSpellingisnotdesemioticismperse,butpostdesemioticism.
Therefore,thefatalflaw,andsubsequentstasis,ofdialecticrationalismwhichisacentralthemeof
Models,Inc.isalsoevidentinBeverlyHills90210.
AnynumberoftheoriesconcerningBaudrillardistsimulationexist.Itcouldbesaidthatdialectic
rationalismholdsthattruthiscapableofdeconstruction.
1.Dietrich,L.ed.(1977)Dialecticrationalismandpostdialecticdiscourse.PanicButtonBooks
2.McElwaine,E.J.M.(1981)DiscoursesofFutility:Postdialecticdiscourseanddialecticrationalism.
HarvardUniversityPress
3.Brophy,F.ed.(1979)Postdialecticdiscourse,Marxismandneosemanticnarrative.Universityof
MichiganPress
4.Tilton,J.K.J.(1985)TheRubiconofClass:DialecticrationalismintheworksofBurroughs.
UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress
5.Dietrich,Y.ed.(1974)PostdialecticdiscourseintheworksofSpelling.Schlangekraft
6.Buxton,Q.G.(1982)ConceptualTheories:Dialecticrationalismandpostdialecticdiscourse.
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7.Prinn,T.M.V.ed.(1976)PostdialecticdiscourseintheworksofMcLaren.PanicButtonBooks

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