October 11, 2004
Good News Everyone: Jacques Derrida is Dead!!
Unless death is simply a social construction, Jacques Derrida is dead. Why am I glad? French and postmodern.
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Kevin the Big Hominid talks about the time he met Derrida and says: Derrida the man isn't a problem; it's Derrida the movement that worries me. The money quote on Derrida goes to Brian Leiter: Alas, he is being referred to as a philosopher.
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People will laugh at your "death as a social construction" comment, but apparently Foucault refused treatment for AIDS because he wanted to prove it didn't really exist and was just a result of power relationships.
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at October 11, 2004 09:12 AM (23yc1)
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That's just the way you read it. (credit to David at Cronaca's wife).
Posted by: Dave Schuler at October 11, 2004 09:18 AM (r91ss)
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Some bathroom graffiti:
Nietzsche is dead.
- God
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 11, 2004 07:00 PM (zKp0a)
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The Nietzsche quote never fails to crack me up.
Thanks for the shout-out.
Kevin
too easily amused
Posted by: Kevin Kim at October 12, 2004 01:26 AM (YX+9P)
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