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2004-10-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2004-10-12 10:46:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mmmmmmmmmmmm... mushrooms!

Posted by tu3031 2004-10-12 8:30:46 AM|| 2004-10-12 8:30:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems to me that "dead" is a value judgement implying that one state of existence is privileged over another.

Posted by Jonathan 2004-10-12 10:25:02 AM|| [http://www.workaround.blogspot.com] 2004-10-12 10:25:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 History is dead. Derrida lives.

Posted by Francis Fukuyama 2004-10-12 10:27:43 AM|| 2004-10-12 10:27:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ROTFLMFAO!

Great wahrks! This is a Classic too!

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-10-12 10:41:19 AM|| 2004-10-12 10:41:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 [i]f reading and writing are one, ...if reading is writing, this oneness designates neither undifferentiated (con)fusion nor identity at perfect rest; the is that couples reading with writing must rip apart. One must then, in a single gesture, but doubled, read and write. And that person would have understood nothing of the game who, at this [du coup], would feel himself authorized merely to add on; that is, to add any old thing. He would add nothing, the seam wouldn't hold. Reciprocally, he who through "methodological prudence," "norms of objectivity," or "safeguards of knowledge" would refrain from committing anything of himself, would not read[/write] at all. The same foolishness, the same sterility, obtains in the "not serious" as in the "serious." The reading or writing supplement must be rigorously prescribed, but by the necessities of a game, by the logic of play.
-- Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination (63-64)

What's that bloody frog on about?
-- Biggles

Posted by mojo 2004-10-12 12:35:15 PM|| 2004-10-12 12:35:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Deconstructionism. Intellectualism without intellect.

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-10-12 1:29:05 PM|| 2004-10-12 1:29:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "this is the creed of jacques Derrida
there aint no writer
and there aint no reada, eidda"

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-12 2:02:17 PM|| 2004-10-12 2:02:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 correction

"this is the creed'a
Jacques Derrida
there aint no writer
and there aint no reada
eida.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-12 2:03:17 PM|| 2004-10-12 2:03:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Somewhere in the Times building there is an obituary editor who enjoys drinking Absynth while reading On Time and Being by Martin Heidegger.

Bravo sir! Bravo!

Posted by Secret Master 2004-10-12 2:20:35 PM|| 2004-10-12 2:20:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 'Hawk:

Best. Posting. Ever.

Posted by Mike 2004-10-12 2:28:31 PM|| 2004-10-12 2:28:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The reference to Dr. Sokal is particularly sly and wonderful. Sokal perpetrated a hoax on the lefties. (Among other things, the paper implied that the force of gravity was a social construction.)

His "comprehensive review" was a later book where he and his co-author exposed deconstructionist writings as empty and nonsensical.

Posted by Steven Den Beste 2004-10-12 2:49:32 PM|| [http://denbeste.nu] 2004-10-12 2:49:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, who has died aged 74, was the founding father of deconstructionism, a controversial system of analysis which challenges the basis of traditional western thought; the deconstructive approach argues that all writing has multiple layers of meaning which even its author might not understand and which leave it open to an endless process of reinterpretation." Source.

Sounds like he studied too many Kerry speeches.

Posted by Tom 2004-10-12 3:01:57 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:01:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Postmodern critics have long posited that the promulgation of multiple discourses in lieu of any univocal truths reflects French historical guilt over being trounced by the Nazis in WW II. Borgboy kids you not...books have been written on the topic...

Posted by borgboy 2004-10-12 5:14:55 PM|| 2004-10-12 5:14:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 It reminds me of that old joke, "There is no such thing as gravity, the world just sucks..."

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-12 6:09:32 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-12 6:09:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 We've got a set of threads on deconstructivism and postmodernism going over at Winds of Change. Start here and follow the links back.

Posted by Robin Burk 2004-10-12 8:12:52 PM|| [http://www.windsofchange.net] 2004-10-12 8:12:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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