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The Pleasure of the Text
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Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice.read more
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