Jacques Derrida is dead

radio news item | 9 Oct 04 | Rightwhale

[RightWhale]

Jacques Derrida a website

Voyage ends at age 74

[blue-duncan]

You might be onto something there. Of course there may be parts that are dead and other parts alive. From what I can determine from observing most liberals they are dead from the shoulders up while wishing others' to be dead from the waist down, or maybe its their ideas are dead from the inception and they want others' progeny dead from conception. Then, as you say, only the dead would dare vote for the likes of Kerry and the only way the liberals could win is with the dead vote. Ah! it is all so confusing! Is he still dead?

[beckaz]

Yep Foucault died of another construct: AIDS, in the 80s (or 90s). I'm no expert on the subject, but I recall seeing somewhere that Foucault didn't believe that "diseases" existed, yes just another construct waiting to be deconstructed.

Hey Foucault and Derrida: "I got your construct right here" (/ NY accent)

[gc4nra]

Ho hum, this is is boring.

Can't decide if it because of ignorance or apathy.


Frankly, I don't know and just don't care!

[blue-duncan]

Care is another construct!

[Kenny Bunk]

Is he still dead?

Foucault was decontructed, not AIDS. When you're swinginging back and forth like that, it is easy to become disoriented.

Minor matter.

[JusPasenThru]

Gently amusing historical reference (spent many an hour hypnotized at the Smithsonian Institute).

[gc4nra]

Therefore, uncaring would be a deconstruct!

[Billthedrill]

RIP. The one thing that the poor fellow really couldn't stand was his own method applied to his philosophy. You can't simultaneously challenge the concreteness of all intellectual terms and then slog the English language with the level of jargon that Derrida did, and be taken seriously.

Deconstructionism taken literally undoes itself. The proposition that a referent and its object map imperfectly dates at least as far back as Aristotle, but "imperfectly" does not mean "not at all" or the proposition itself would be meaningless.

My brain hurts. Time for a beer.

[Calusa]

Roger that.

[Kenny Bunk]

Precisement, mon ami. Hold that thought.

[Kenny Bunk]

.......and be taken seriously. Deconstructionism taken literally undoes itself. The proposition that a referent and its object map imperfectly dates at least as far back as Aristotle, but "imperfectly" does not mean "not at all" or the proposition itself would be meaningless.

Yes but, we had better take it seriously because "Deconstruction" is the mental engine that drives precisely those people, who if in power, will deconstruct us all. For some darn reason, the Clintons spring to mind.

[wita]

Flamed? You are to be congratulated for surviving, and then letting your example of change for the better be read by millions. Who knows, someone with like background might be influenced for good.

[RightWhale]

He had a good example in what happened in Turkey when the monarch changed the alphabet by decree one day. Suddenly all the signs were different. Yet not.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your service, DC Bound!

And thank you for the ping, betty boop.