Deconstructing sensory illusion requires first awakening illusion’s full power

Evidence

Yet, as we have already seen, this remarkable and devastating diagnosis of the modern and of its sensory rhetoric (we cannot recapitulate the detailed deconstruction of Rilke’s figures that follows) is followed almost immediately by the reinstatement of the primacy of literary and poetic language. This is plausible enough, since if what is wanted is the undoing of the sensory illusions of language, then these must have been awakened to their fullest extent for the definitive strong case against them to be made. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 561

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: this logic — intensify the illusion to refute it — is a genuinely strange move worth unpacking further.
• XREF: connects to: Missing-fundamental illusions depend on a musical context being established first — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1656; Incoherent auditory context suppresses the McGurk illusion most effectively when brief; Entrained cortical oscillations modulate perception via phase alignment
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Missing-fundamental illusions depend on a musical context being established first — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1656; Incoherent auditory context suppresses the McGurk illusion most effectively when brief; Entrained cortical oscillations modulate perception via phase alignment