, What does the "autonomous unfolding of sense data" (59) really mean? It is assumed that the sensations are autonomous from meaning; but again, there is no foundation for the claim that any element of a text is meaningless. It would be impossible to analyze in this short space the reasons for the postmodern fear of mind and meaning, but one may say that Jameson's concept of affect comes down to another variation on the postmodern "unassimilable," another trace, another inexpressible, another other, what Lyotard called "l'inaccordable" and others have called by a host of other names.8 This is a late romantic position, critical of reason, mind and language as it is feared that they will dissect/murder, reduce or reify, a perspective that seeks a return to nature in the form of namelessness, has as its function to replace the opposition of mind and body" (73); but it is a common contradiction in postmodern thinking to defend a monism of mind and body, while simultaneously banishing the mind (alongside meaning) and so focusing on the body that the dualism necessarily returns

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S. Patrick-labarthe, Notice the direct reference in "Le Flacon" to the possibly contemporaneous sonnet, Correspondances

, Gallimard, 1975), vol.1, p.430

, Gallimard, 1976), vol.2, p.695

, A truly monist view, such as a Buddhist view based in the experience of meditation, would disagree with the following: the "'perpetual present' is better characterized as a 'reduction to the body

J. Lyotard and L. 'inhumain, Causeries sur le temps, p.12, 1988.