Macherey

  I feel that I understand some of what Macherey was talking about in the first part: how speech/language/communication is not just about the what is said, but what is not said. By saying something one puts more solid meaning to a particular idea, making it less susceptible to interpretation. When something is not said then questions about the multitude of things that are not said can spur inquiry and creation of narratives molded by the listeners experience and beliefs.
  I did have trouble understanding the differences between 'what it refuses to say' and 'what it does not say'. I'm sure the lecture will help clarify this.

 A quote I liked was "So the real trap of language is its tacit positiveness which makes it into a truly active insistence: the error belongs as much with the one who reveals it as it does with the one who asks the first questions, the critic (19)."

But as the reading got more into the two questions section I became a little more confused. Macherey really does get into some serious rhetoric, very analytical, but the concepts are so complex to me right now that I could not really get a grasp of the meaning of the reading.

So for class I really hope the lecture helps me grasp the second half of "The spoken and unspoken" and "The two questions". But I am happy to being challenged by the works  in this class. I feel that as I begin to grasp more about structuralism and post-modernism that I will truly reach a new level in my academic career.