King Kriggle on Macherey

After reading Macherey there are a lot of questions and applications that come up. To me the most interesting part of his entire piece comes in the form of his ideas about criticism. To begin the work must be incomplete and there must be something else to be said after another fashion (pg 15). This is very interesting to me because in my experience it didn’t always seem to be the case, but when looked upon further it seems that a perfect work, or one that had no margins or void would be nothing to talk about because there was nothing about said work to discuss. Take for example a “perfect movie”, now if the movie was so wonderful that there was nothing wrong with it, all you could discuss would be the form, there would be no reason to hypothesize about what was being said or trying to be said in something because it was complete and everything was explained and said that needed to be. Thankfully we do not live in a world that is that blatant because if we did it would surely be a boring one and there would be no room for interpretation, and interpretation to me is the beauty behind works, as this was the center for Habermas and the public sphere. Room for discourse, debate, and criticism is what invokes new ideas, new thoughts, and keeps the wheels of society and knowledge turning. Looking now at another point made by Macherey would be “the aim of criticism is to speak the truth, a truth not unrelated to the book, but not as the content to the book” (pg 15). Now as mentioned earlier I do believe this to be a noble cause and a good idea, but in relation to the real world one could very easily get criticism and interpretation mixed up really easily and some serious problems would come along with assumptions like that or interpretations. One only need look at the Bible and what different interpretations of that have caused. Not only a few wars, but also the deaths of a good deal of people and several schisms within the religion itself. I don’t know about anyone else, but i would be hard pressed to name even 10 denominations and branches within the Christian belief. I once had someone tell me they were a “reformed protestant with calvinistic beliefs”...what the hell is this? Seriously??? When too much criticism or interpretation gets involved you end up with something so convoluted and confusing that the person saying it probably doesn’t even have a full grasp of what they are trying to say....well it definitely makes for a good debate haha.........