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3 days ago · Jacques Derrida (1974) argued meaning in language is a process of difference and deferral. Difference refers to how signs acquire meaning through their relationships to other signs. For example, we are taught the combination of letters or sounds that form the verb “stop” signifies a particular action. The verb “go” signifies a different ...
15 hours ago · This essay focuses on Jacques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind, the catalog accompanying the exhibit of the same name that Derrida organized and curated at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1990. The essay begins by considering Derrida’s seemingly surprising choice of themes, that is, darkness, blindness and invisibility, for an exhibit of drawings and paintings that belong to the so-called ...
1 day ago · On September 11, Seyla Benhabib was awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt, whose past laureates have included Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas. This is an abridged version of the lecture Benhabib delivered in German on that occasion.
15 hours ago · Derrida’s deconstruction of the possibility of an “absolute” or “unconditional” hospitality is closely tied to his concept of hostipitality (in French, hostipitalité). Footnote 8 While hospitality implies a welcoming and open attitude toward the other, Derrida argues that inherent within the concept of hospitality is also its opposite: hostility.
15 hours ago · I guess it is a form of hauntology, as coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book, Spectres of Marx. Not only am I giving voice to these fascinating figures of that time and place, but the ethos behind my writing for musicians is to write for the personalities behind the instruments, rather than purely for the instruments.
2 days ago · Mélenchon, he says, is a symptom of a worldwide crisis of leadership, which in the United States includes the growth of “wokeism,” an ideology he says that “ proceeds from wicked, false readings — too quick and completely absurd readings — of the books of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault.”
15 hours ago · Gil Anidjar. October 16, 2024. I am my mother’s child. Like every soul on earth, I have been mothered. Whence my writing on, to and from, mother. W e tell ourselves many stories, and many of them have to do with beginnings. The Mayflower, the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence.
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