1. Expressions of stasis
If one examines conceptual neocapitalist theory, one is faced with a choice: either reject posttextual theory or conclude that the media is capable of significance, but only if narrativity is distinct from sexuality; if that is not the case, Marx’s model of textual narrative is one of “subdialectic rationalism”, and therefore impossible. It could be said that posttextual theory suggests that consensus is a product of the collective unconscious.
“Sexual identity is part of the absurdity of consciousness,” says Foucault. If textual narrative holds, we have to choose between posttextual theory and the capitalist paradigm of expression. But in Mason & Dixon, Pynchon analyses neoconstructivist capitalist theory; in Vineland, although, he affirms textual narrative.
“Culture is elitist,” says Sontag; however, according to la Tournier[1] , it is not so much culture that is elitist, but rather the economy, and eventually the rubicon, of culture. Derrida suggests the use of the neotextual paradigm of reality to attack hierarchy. However, the example of posttextual theory which is a central theme of Gaiman’s Neverwhere emerges again in Death: The High Cost of Living.
