Some Principles of Phenomenological Hermeneutics

5. While experience is present to us through signification, experience is not just language, or signifying systems generally; experience pre-exists signification at the same time as signification brings it into meaning. While signification makes experience become itself, there is an excess meaning to being, what phenomenology calls the 'noema', which excess escapes articulation even as it is shaped by it, and so there is always an almost-said, a demand for metaphor, image, narrative, nuance, polysemy. We are 'being-in-the-world" as Heidegger said; this is a complex and many-faceted phenomenon, but the world is always 'left over', not exhausted by its symbolisation. This surplus of meaning may remind one of the surplus of meaning one finds in deconstruction, but phenomenological hermeneutics tends to locate more richness of surplus meaning in self-presence or being-in-the-world then in signs, although is not wholly comprehensible in itself. (Copyright 1996 by John Lye)

In 1968 Mick Jagger sang "cause summer's here and the time is right for for fighting in the streets". It's the second line of Street Fighting Man. i heard it on the radio yesterday. The Rolling Stones are playing in Auckland this weekend.

i quite like Street Fighting Man. It is nice to be reminded that The Rolling Stones were a dangerous band. When i heard the line yesterday i thought maybe i had mis-heard it but when i had a look around i found more than one person had noticed that this line is a take-off on Martha and the Vandella's Dancing in the Streets. Mick Jagger covered Dancing in the Streets with David Bowie in 1985. An event which prompted the hissing disrespect of youth in me for both Jagger and Bowie. "Fools" i thought "Old Fools". Irony was not big in 1985. At least not with me. i was fifteen years old, just driving, just about to leave school, just too smart for my own good.

i don't think Mick Jagger has regained much in my opinion (they have just played a Rolling Stones' song from the album they released last year) but like i say, it is nice to be reminded The Rolling Stones were a dangerous band and that maybe he knew more than i did when i was fifteen and he was ... older.