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http://doctorzamalek.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/parody/

I was just checking out Graham Harman’s blog a little further (which I highly suggest for our readers to do as well), and I came across this post that gets at something that I have been having difficulties articulating. Harman writes:

But I’ve always been suspicious of the smugness with which people say: “I prefer substance over style.” Because there is a sense in which the substance is the style. People have just gotten in the bad habit of thinking of style as a gaudy surface ornament tarting up honest, humble truths– with empty showboats focusing on the former and serious people on the latter. Somehow, that’s a distortion of what’s really going on. There is something reprehensibly shallow and connivingly selfish about anything or anyone that is style-less.

I’d like to simply add too the way in which style and logic overlap and how questions relating to the logic of a text sometimes offer far more interesting analyses than directly analyzing the contents of what someone is saying.