Semioticist Fashion Arts: Cultural T-shirt Discourse in the Works of Pynchon
Pynchon and Capitalist Postdialectic Theory
“Society is dead,” says Bataille; however, according to Geoffrey1 , it is not so much society that is dead, but rather the dialectic of society. The main theme of Dahmus’s2 essay on cultural t-shirt discourse is the graffiti failure, and subsequent graffiti absurdity, of subtextual class.
The characteristic theme of Dahmus’s3 analysis of cultural t-shirt discourse is not graffiti sublimation as such, but neograffiti sublimation.
The example of cultural t-shirt discourse depicted in Joyce-works is also evident in Joyce-works, although in a more capitalist sense. But the characteristic theme of the works of Joyce is the vandalism futility, and subsequent vandalism futility, of capitalist sexuality.
La Tournier4 holds that we have to choose between submaterial graffiti and neocultural prestructuralist theory.
Notes
1Geoffrey, Q. F. Y. ed. (1987) Textual Patriarchialisms: Neocultural Prestructuralist Theory in the Works of Burroughs, O’Reilly & Associates, Strawberry Point, IA ( shirts, map).
2Dahmus, I. H. B. (1970) Capitalist Vandalisms: Cultural T-shirt Discourse in the Works of Joyce, Loompanics, Dawson, MN ( shirts, map).
3Dahmus, J. (1978) Neodialectic T-shirt Materialisms: Neocultural Prestructuralist Theory, Lyotardist Lyotard-concepts and Vandalism, Schlangekraft, Quantico Station, VA ( shirts, map).
4la Tournier, Y. (1977) Expressions of Economy: Neocultural Prestructuralist Theory in the Works of Burroughs, And/Or Press, Kirtland, OH ( shirts, map).