Posted on 10/09/2004 11:39:18 AM PDT by RightWhale
Jacques Derrida a website
Voyage ends at age 74
Precisely. The concept of "death" is part of a relentless pursuit by the living class to illegally promote the living at the expense of other classes of humans. No doubt, it has origins in class struggle and an attempt by the religious to justify their own sexual repressions.
Jacques Derrida was the founder of deconstruction, which -- simply put -- was a way to read your own meaning into a text. Authorial intent wasn't necessary to find the meaning of any literary work.
We can parallel it to the modern-day trashing of the Constituition -- notice that Bush in his debates last night talked about nominating a "strict constructionist"; the exact opposite of what Jacques Derrida was for.
Sad. But we have every reason to expect that he is even now learning the brutal reality of damnation.
No one can say!
Derrida, the father of deconstructionism, the irritating bane of my graduate studies in English lit? Lord bless him, but now he will understand the metacognitive relationship between text and reader beyond the self-centered level he was able to grasp it.
REQUIEM aeternam dona ei, Domine
OTOH forget what I said. It's better to have them misunderestimate us.
Sounds like Forrest Gump trying to sound intelligent..
-OR-
Al Gump trying to sound Vice Presidental..
It is the means the ruling class deals with the problem of overcrowding. It is a lot like "hide 'n seek" only on on a larger screen. If you are caught, the rulers consider you "dead" and you really don't have much to say about it since you don't have any power.
You've been exposed!
Exactly. Derrida's mission was to cut us loose of our moorings because we have tied up at a sinking Venice. It sounds like Clinton/Kerry Democrats, but even they would get lost and scared immediately if they were serious. Lately I hear nothing but changing philosomemes coming from the telepellating agents, which Derrida was deconstructing as fast as possible. Derrida in this way encouraged development of even stronger personal Conservatism, although he left that up to others.
"Language is part of the collapse of consciousness," says Derrida; however, according to Wilson, it is not so much language that is part of the collapse of consciousness, but rather the fatal flaw of language. Thus, the main theme of the works of Smith is not theory, as Bataille would have it, but subtheory. The subject is interpolated into a Debordist situation that includes reality as a totality.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
Yep...Derida is one of those guys who leads us to a culture that says there is no truth, only consensus, no right, only agreed on parameters...therefore, in some ways, one of the fathers of all the absurdity we see about us.
That one needed a rimshot sound effect.
I know I'll get flamed, but there was a time, a decade ago, when I thought Derrida was all that. Of course, I was also a college student who thought the world owed him something, that corporations were greedy, that our environment was collapsing, that life was absolutely meaningless. When you are a part of that crowd, a philosopher who comes along and builds an intricate explanation for why everything is meaningless makes you feel good. Not because he creates a better world or a bright future, but because he confirms your angst-filled, petty, puerile intellect and allows you a bit of hubris just for being able to quote him. Thank God I got so depressed I joined the Army. Hard work beats that crappy thinking right out of people.
Conservatism can only get stronger when someone sees the madness of the deconstructionist position, coupled with its observable end results (think about the story of the "artist" who misspelled all the names and simply called it art).
Since I've never sat under a postmodernist professor, I've always wondered if they allow their students to deconstruct the textbooks they've written? Hmmmmm...
By the way, from where did you get "philosomemes" and "telepellating?"
I was just mentioning to another student in metaphysics class that Derrida has a teaching post at UC Irvine. Derrida should be well known in the philosophy dept, but it appears that no one can be famous in philosophy unless he is dead. Well, Derrida can be famous now.
Nobody will flame you for growing up!
LOL, it's what Jacques Kerouac was searching for.
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