On the subject of blanc noir, I quote from my own book
[1]:
A number of desublimations concerning the blancnoirist
paradigm of context exist; frequently, the subject is
interpolated into a Lyotardist narrative that includes truth
as a whole. Hubbins uses the term 'bleak rationalism' to
denote the purported effects of blancnoirism as an essential
cause of the failure of classic noirist society, while
suggesting, at the same time and with a not inconsiderable
modicum of ironic skepticism, that the use of the
blancnoirist paradigm of context to read inner city warfare
is condemned to failure.
What matters here is the role of the observer as reader. It
could be said that, as part of the blanc-noir separative
symbiosis, the subject is contextualized into a prematerial
paradigm of consensus that includes noir as a totality.
Does it matter that this totality is interstitial to a
dominant status quo that both validates it and negates
it?
I leave y'all with this vital question, which I trust will
further, if not clarify, the definitional debate.
[1] Blancnoirism: Notes Towards an Aesthetic of
Riffraff
Regards,
mrT
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