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I’m on… and confused.
Speaking on the link between the work of Derrida and identity, Peggy Kamuf, a trusted translator of Derrida’s work, glossed his work thus:
In practically everything Derrida has written over the last thirty years, this figure of circular appropriation of the self to itself without difference [she means the concept of identity] is shown to submit [...]
Well, after quite a break, it’s back to blogging about my thesis again. Will hopefully be putting up quite a bit of material, following completing a chapter draft and having it put through the excoriating process of supervisory criticism.
By no longer treating the posts as a metaphor of the envoi of Being, one can account for what essentially and decisively occurs, everywhere, and including language, thought, science, and everything that conditions them, when the postal structure shifts, Satz if you will, and posits or posts itself otherwise. This is why this history of [...]
Thesis suicide! I tipped a glass of water all over my laptop today. At first it seemed okay – I tipped off all the water, tried as much as I could to soak up any visible water with paper towel… and it was all still working ok. So I went back to work, and did [...]
The American spelling courtesy of the English translation of Derrida’s Specters of Marx. Just wanting to note (for my own self) that, from a few weeks ago now (where does the time go?), there’s been quite a bit of blog discussion on this text. Check out Rough Theory here, here, and a bit later (notice [...]