Archive for the 'musings' Category
“Now, the disciple’s consciousness, when he starts, I would not say to dispute, but to engage in dialogue with the master or, better, to articulate the interminable and silent dialogue which made him into a discipline—this disciple’s consciousness is an unhappy consciousness.”
Jacques Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness”
Yesterday I had the good fortune of [...]
The distinction between critical and speculative philosophy of history (by Walsh) sent me to the dictionary, tracing the history of the word speculative. Via French from Latin, the word is – obviously enough – etymologically tied to sight. Just like theory. Speculari, to spy out, specula, a look out, a watch tower. In the 17th C. [...]
Carolyn Steedman on Derrida’s Archive Fever:
“Many English-speaking readers – this one, too – have assumed that ‘Archive Fever’ has something to do with archives (rather than with psycho-analysis, or memory, or finding things); and even when the reaction has been more philosophical, Derrida has been addressed through his archon and the arkheion. But commentators have [...]
When we talk about things – about anything in actual fact – we normally give them, whether implicitly or explicitly a kind of history. We imply the genesis of this or that, its heritage and kinship. It’s how we make sense of the world, we relate things to each other in a web [...]
My supervisor has asked me to set my own deadline for a full draft of my first chapter. PhD as experience of self-discipline. This chapter is an analysis of the reception of Derrida in certain philosophy of history and historiographical journals.
I’m coming up on having been doing this for 12 months now, and a [...]
