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Originally posted by epigone:
Is there another way of reading it -- of getting the joke -- that I am missing? In other words, do you have an interpretation that is less "literalist"?
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Well, yes. My interpretation is that we're not supposed to take sadistic glee in someone getting dismembered. If, as you yourself say, it's symbolic violence, then there's no reason to act as though the thing we're amused by is the gruesome torture and murder of a person. I think the people who are amused laugh at the application (or I guess you would say misapplication) of Derrida's ideas to the situation. The context is what is funny, not the mayhem.
Steve
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