Transcoding between ideological codes is the most productive critical activity
Evidence
I can transcode; that is to say, I can set about measuring what is sayable and “thinkable” in each of these codes or idiolects and compare that to the conceptual possibilities of its competitors: this is, in my opinion, the most productive and responsible activity for students and theoretical or philosophical critics to pursue today, but it has the drawback of being retrospective and even potentially traditionalist or nostalgic, insofar as the proliferation of new codes is an endless process that at best cannibalizes the preceding ones and at worst consigns them to the historical dustheap. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 845
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘transcoding’ — measuring what is sayable in each code versus competitors — a central method term.
- SEED: Could be an essay angle: practicing transcoding as a method for mapping one’s own position and the ideological codes one speaks.
- XREF: connects to: Critical deconstruction of racial ideology can become ideology itself — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2774
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Critical deconstruction of racial ideology can become ideology itself — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2774
Broader Connections
- Critical deconstruction of racial ideology can become ideology itself
#complicates(0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2774