# Mikhail Iampolski (1999) *Theory as Quotation*. : The MIT Press. > [!INFO] > Type:: [[]] > Title:: Theory as Quotation > Author(s): [[Mikhail Iampolski]] > Year:: 1999 > Tags:: > DOI:: 10.2307/779224 > Citekey:: iampolski_theory_1999 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: Theory as Quotation](zotero://select/items/@iampolski_theory_1999) > ReviewedDate:: [[2023-03-16]] ## Citation ```latex [@iampolski_theory_1999] ``` ## Summary ## Annotation > We can probably define Eisenstein’s entire theoretical adventure as a movement from an initial stage of fragmentary exposition of material (the Constructivist stage of “quotations,” when synthesis is still often lacking) towards a later stage of all-embracing synthesis, characterized by a massive appropriation of the notion of ecstasy; of so-called dialectics; of an interest in nondierentiation and primordiality [...]; and in preconceptual thinking, mythology, and regress. [@iampolski_theory_1999, 59] > It is my understanding that this Klagesian approach to reflection was incorporated by Eisenstein into his theory of montage. This incorporation had at least two consequences. > First, an interval didn't produce a nonreducible polarity. Any polarity, any contrasting dissimilarity, is always a screen concealing similarity. All opposites are, finally, substitutes. > The second result was even more important: all dissimilarities are nothing other than reflections of the self, the distorted products of self-mirroring. This point is fundamental because it relates the theory of montage and of the interval in particular with subjective, reflexive activity. ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[<% tp.file.title %>]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```