This dissertation works and is worked by the chiasmus in-between the language of
space and the space of language. Fragmented narratives of live(d) experience from
the everyday life of pedagogy are juxtaposed with theoretical traces from Lacanian
psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction. The text(ure) of the work labours
with and against the grain of hegemonic inscriptions in multiple sites of pedagogy -
tarrying within uncertainty - on the tremulous grounds of a 'third' discourse.
Located always already within the materiality of language, the work labours within
spaces of provocative dissonance in-between theoretical positionings. Readings of
spatiality from architecture and human geography intersect and disseminate with
readings of language from post/colonial ethnography and cultural studies. Rereadings
resonate within the vibrancy of a growing literature on writing otherwise
within the spaces of interdisciplinarity. Reading outside the literature of pedagogy
infuses the inside writing as boundaries are disturbed and subjectivities
destabilized. Research is rewritten as messy text as/in a rigour of ruins in the gaps
and intervals of the spaces in-between. As semiotic tropes of language shift toward
performativity, the text ex-scribes in order to disrupt the circumscriptions of
normative praxis. The text seeks invocations for risking radical responsibilities in
the everyday experience of living pedagogy - in the tensionaliry of the always
already and the not-yet there. The work of this dissertation labours beneath and
beyond the text in semiotic dispositions - through an Aokian re-reading of Lacanian
metonymy for pedagogy - a doubling movement of metonymy/metaphor in tropic
moments - within a 'third' discourse generating openings for transformation. Excentric
circumscriptions dis/appear into the space of no-thingness - a site of
ambiguity that is both thing and nothing and yet neither thing nor nothing - an
ongoing response to an invitation to write a paper/not paper. A writing that tarries
within its inscription - ghosted by a reading relationship with itself. A writing that
seeks a jouissance of vacancy in tracking the spectrality of paper ghosts. The
possibilities for transformation happen in chiasmatic passages from trope to
performativity through re-readings and mis-readings. From a working text emerge
articulations of a radical rhetoricity evoking ongoing labour from the para-sitic
spatial punctuations of AuthorTextReader.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/13210 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Palulis, Patricia Adele |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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