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5. Between the seen and the said : Deleuze-Guattari's pragmatics of the order-word

Author

McClure, Bruce David

Subjects
100, B Philosophy (General), P Philology. Linguistics
Abstract

This thesis investigates Deleuze-Guattari's notion of stratification through a series of investigations into their material on language. Stratification is their term for the process by which matter-energy comes to assume the relatively stable historical formations of our social world, and in particular the relationship between subjects, objects and words. The complex notion of the order-word/password is proposed as key to this process, with its role in the articulations of the strata (as order-word) and in movements of creation and escape (as password). I explore this apparatus from a variety of angles, in order to present an account of Deleuze-Guattari's pragmatics that demonstrates both its basis in philosophy and its connections with the world. I begin by introducing the notion of 'difference in itself', through Deleuze/Deleuze-Guattari's critique of representation and their account of subjectification, the creation of the subject in space and time (in relation to Bergson and Kant) - and then feed this material through an encounter with Judge Schreber, in the process filling out our account of the subject. The resulting diagram of stratification is further explored through a dialogue with two other key thinkers of language - Wittgenstein, in relation to his social conception of meaning as use, and Derrida, in relation to his critique of Austin and Searle's Speech Act theory - in either case, demonstrating important connections and contrasts with Deleuze-Guattari. I then examine the specifics of stratoanalysis through an examination of the related zones of the formal, the abstract and the incorporeal, bringing this to bear on Deleuze- Guattari's appropriation of the linguist Hjelmslev, and to the criticisms of Ruthrof. The final step is to relate this apparatus both to linguistic and everyday understandings of language, connecting this pragmatics of the order-word with the notion of an 'art of living' through a consideration of standardised language and 'verbal hygiene'.

Published
2001

9. Post-pollination hybridization barriers in Nicotiana section Alatae

Author

Lee, Christopher, Page, Lawrence, McClure, Bruce, and Holtsford, Timothy

Abstract

Abstract: Nicotiana section Alatae contains eight species with variable flower sizes and morphologies. Section members readily hybridize in the glasshouse, but no hybrids have been observed in natural sympatric and parapatric populations. To investigate interspecific crossing relationships with respect to mechanisms preventing hybridization, all members of section Alatae were intercrossed in a complete diallel. We found positive correlation between the pistil length of the pollen donor and interspecific seed set relative to the conspecific cross. Pollen tube growth rate and pollen donor pistil length were positively correlated as well. Furthermore, pollen from short-pistil members of section Alatae could only grow a maximum distance proportional to, but greater than, their own pistil lengths. Our results show that pollen tube growth capacity (i.e., rate and distance), provides a hybridization barrier in long-pistil species × short-pistil species crosses. We also found another hybridization barrier not specifically related to pollen tube growth capacity in short-pistil species × long-pistil species. Taken together, these barriers can generally be described by a ‘pistil-length mismatch’ rule; in section Alatae, pollen has the most success fertilizing ovules from species with pistil lengths similar to their own. This rule could contribute to hybridization barriers in Section Alatae because the species display dramatically different pistil lengths.

Published
2024
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40. Compartmentalization of S-RNase and HT-B degradation in self-incompatible Nicotiana

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Goldraij, Ariel, Kondo, Katsuhiko, Lee, Christopher B., Hancock, C. Nathan, Sivaguru, Mayandi, Vazquez-Santana, Sonia, Kim, Sunran, Phillips, Thomas E., Cruz-Garcia, Felipe, and McClure, Bruce

Subjects
Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Author(s): Ariel Goldraij [1, 7]; Katsuhiko Kondo [2, 7]; Christopher B. Lee [2, 3]; C. Nathan Hancock [4]; Mayandi Sivaguru [3]; Sonia Vazquez-Santana [5]; Sunran Kim [2]; Thomas E. Phillips [...]

Published
2006
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47. Negotiations

Author

McClure, Bruce

Subjects
Negotiations (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Social sciences
Published
1998

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