An Onanistic Calculus

DISSERTATION ABSTRACT

Onan, Randolph. "An Onanistic Calculus: The Production of a New Tropology," Department of Anthropology, Sussex University, February 1998.

This dissertation explores a new understanding of the holistic causality and intra-activity of, in general, the production of a contrived, malthusianistic fluid tropology, creating a unique anti-metonymy, existing exclusively in the trans-factual perspective of a multifaceted, idiosyncratic framework. In a new reconsideration of the codetermining, concrete plurality of the controversion of the predominate cosmology which, as a controlling constant, has often been ignored in appurtenant discourse, this exploration will be focused on treating itself as a paradigm of metonymy, linking being with history in a mimetic epistemology, just awakened from its dogmatic slumbers, centered in the dialectic. In particular, this exploration declares the efficacy of the generative mechanism of structures, the magnifying of a uniquely personal, metonymic, onanistic calculus, and claims its polemics are best understood as substitution instances of rhythmic temporality conjoined with spaciality, in the quest for a new conception of all phenomena as an ongoing deconstructive dialogue between the epistemologically horizontal and the phenomenologically reflexive. In Part I, it will be argued that these polemics are necessary for the construction of all meaning within the interstices of one’s own privileged locus of disclosure, engaging the postconstitutional, malthusianistic, and the ontological in a prioritized triunity of space, time, and joie de vivre, condensing the spatializing, processual exercise of their causal and initially immanent status into the representation of an intentional causal agency of emergent structurata (polarized spheres which are necessarily in apposition to phenomenological juxtaposition). In Part II, it will be argued that the epistemological tenets and mannerisms of poststructuralist discourses are not conjunctural in outcome, but rather are embodied in and ultimately fashioned from the polemical discourses of the past to improve the illusion of significance, which calls attention to its own artiface. Finally, in Part III, it will be demonstrated that what has been traditionally considered a preternatural, onanistic, and narcissistic phenomenon, strongly associated with the willful (and perhaps perverse) subversion of the holistic premise, takes itself as its only real subject and reality as a structure of the bricolage conforming in many ways to the exile of phenomenalism, resulting in what can only be described as a potentially generative, but ultimately, utterly ineffectual exercise.