Three is a Crowd: A potential exception to an oppositional rule

Allen, Marilyn (2014) Three is a Crowd: A potential exception to an oppositional rule. Doctoral thesis, University of Wales.

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Abstract

The oppositional rule, established upon the philosophical traditions of binarism and dialecticism, situates the two protagonists in this research (the artistic collaboration matthews and allen) as antithetical systems. This discourse proposes a disruption to a metaphysical dichotomy between the noetic authorial text and the poetic paratext. The non-oppositional premise of collaborative dialogue is proposed as a method to resist the oppositional logic of dialecticism and the homogenous ‘third hand’ of collaboration theory. Michel Serres’ assertion that to ‘hold a dialogue is to suppose a third man and seek to exclude him’ positions the ‘third man’ of communication as a disruptive force. The excluded third is a noise in the background of ideological unity, the ‘potential for surprise’, an intervallic exception in a paradigmatic order. This collaborative game breaks the rule of opposition and subsequently generates a third space where the indeterminate relation between the scholastic text and matthews and allen’s paratext performs disruption in the authorial system.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Binarism Dialecticism Collaboration theory
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions:	Theses and Dissertations > Doctoral Theses
Depositing User:	Marilyn Allen
Date Deposited:	21 Apr 2017 09:45
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2023 13:06
URI:	https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/723

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