SUBVERSION, INVERSION, PERVERSION – THREE ESSAYISTIC STRATEGIES OF AN ENGAGED SUBJECT

Sa？etak Postmodern interpretation of reality as a permanently through discourse mediated construct has a double implication. Firstly discourse resresents not only reality but it also presupposes it: it becomes its substitute (Baudrillard). The interpretation of reality at this level implicates its sign configuration. Secondly self-sufficiency of a discourse presupposes its incompleteness: it is conceived in the purity of difference (Derrida) and therefore sentences to inauthentic repetition. The inability of wholesome creation of reality at this level implies the inability of absolute reality criticism. This paper aims at pointing out those subjective expressions that through special, local interventions interfere into already made reality and hence critically provoke the basic metalanguage of postmodern implications. The essayistic fragments of Benjamin (Oneway street), Adorno (Minima Moralia) and Spicer (Thre Marxist Essays), through subversion, inversion and perversion have managed, respectively, to preserve the discoursive praxis from the obligation of inauthentic repetition. In this manner, the ways of real intervention are connected to the ways of a possible emancipation