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Re: [SPAM] RHIZOME_RAW: derrida was a flip-flopper


derrida is easy

language is hard

Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:
Thanks for the good words Jim.

On 10/10/04 3:56 PM, "Jim Andrews" wrote:

> interesting. i interpreted Lee's statement not as disrespectful toward
> Derrida but as a humorous acknowlegement of the relevance of his ideas to
> the current 'language wars' between bush and kerry. bushies characterize
> kerry as a flip-flopper and bush as plain spoken. but bush is not plain
> spoken and assinine 'bushisms' highlight this, as do many of his
> pronouncements such as Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the USA
> invaded Iraq. Bushies try to make Bush out as a plain-spoken teller of the
> truth. but language itself, never mind power and desire, resists this. the
> situation is more like what trashconnection describes when s/he says "it is
> relation, more like a terrain, but without any hard ground, because every
> word as the placeholder of sense is just a placeholder, but a placeholder
> with 'tradition'.
>
> Derrida's writing is famously difficult. It is hard to tell, often, what the
> hell he means. But he affirms the value of reserving the right to change our
> minds as we learn more about complex situations, like Kerry the 'flip
> flopper'.
>
> also, recall that it was Lee who originally posted the news of Derrida's
> death and the article from the NY Times, which is another indication that he
> is unlikely to be disrespectful of Derrida.
>
> ja
>
>
>> Can we be more respectful?
>>
>> Don't make general statements unless you are ready to explain yourself.
>>
>> He earned better than this--whether one likes theory or not.
>>
>> e.
>
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for this new lack of Derrida


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Re: derrida was a flip-flopper


the nature of what derrida pursued made it neccessary to flip-flop---in fact, he studiously courted inconsistency---he wrote at the hinge about the hinge....

Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:Not anymore but his inconsistency will remain forever.
Was Derrida a flip-flopper?

On 10/10/04 1:53 PM, "~~~~|//////|~~~~" <llacook@yahoo.com> wrote:

there is no derrida.....

Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:

> well...
> it is, of course, difficult to type about derrida. too much i never
> really understood.
> i suggest, nonetheless, that he was a man of great intellectual
> courage. a
> man
> unfragmented by common currency. the realignment of symbolism in this era
> is this brother's gift.

he understood the complexity of natural language which follows from its
necessary logical circularities. and in the absence of logic as the
controlling factor in the construction of meaning, he investigated how power
and desire engineer the construction of meaning. he was a philosopher of
language and has also often been called one of the great poets of the late
twentieth century. We associate with poetry the most intense engagements
with language. If this is so, then Godel, Turing, and Derrida rank among the
great po! ets of the mid to late twentieth century. They have changed the way
we look at language and ourselves.

ja
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Re: derrida


there is no derrida.....

Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:

> well...
> it is, of course, difficult to type about derrida. too much i never
> really understood.
> i suggest, nonetheless, that he was a man of great intellectual
> courage. a
> man
> unfragmented by common currency. the realignment of symbolism in this era
> is this brother's gift.

he understood the complexity of natural language which follows from its
necessary logical circularities. and in the absence of logic as the
controlling factor in the construction of meaning, he investigated how power
and desire engineer the construction of meaning. he was a philosopher of
language and has also often been called one of the great poets of the late
twentieth century. We associate with poetry the most intense engagements
with language. If this is so, then Godel, Turing, and Derrida rank among the
great poets of the mid to late twentieth century. They have changed the way
we look at language and ourselves.

ja
http://vispo.com

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