10 October 2004
Derrida Encore
'Clarity is necessary...Yes. But there is light, and there are lights, daylight, and also the madness of the day [la folie du jour]. Without even referring to apocalypses of the Zoroastrian type (there were more than one of them), we know that every apocalyptic eschatology is promised in the name of light, of the visionary and vision, and of a light of light, of a light brighter than all the lights it makes possible....' - Derrida
Well, now that the blogomonde is aflame with talk of the late Monsieur J.D. (who, incidentally, I am just consulting for a forthcoming paper: one of his relatively rare discussions of Kant in a really great collection entitled Raising the Tone of Philosophy, quoted above), it pains me (in a dull, unsurprising) way just how virulent, misinformed and spiteful some of the major UK/US reports have been (the previously posted bitterly ironic letter excepted). It is of course revealing just how eager correspondents are to comment on something they have never looked at: revelatory of the dark, systematically elitist anti-intellectual attempt to refuse thought at every level, of course!
Compare the Bulgarian news agency's genuine attempt to make sense of Derrida with the BBC's pitiful sneering.
nevertheless, the democratic, dessiminatory potential of the 'net fortunately wends its tenacious way through the slurry: pas-au-delà, michael bérubé, the weblog, the weblog, again, sweeteffay and k-punk.
Stay awake....
Well, now that the blogomonde is aflame with talk of the late Monsieur J.D. (who, incidentally, I am just consulting for a forthcoming paper: one of his relatively rare discussions of Kant in a really great collection entitled Raising the Tone of Philosophy, quoted above), it pains me (in a dull, unsurprising) way just how virulent, misinformed and spiteful some of the major UK/US reports have been (the previously posted bitterly ironic letter excepted). It is of course revealing just how eager correspondents are to comment on something they have never looked at: revelatory of the dark, systematically elitist anti-intellectual attempt to refuse thought at every level, of course!
Compare the Bulgarian news agency's genuine attempt to make sense of Derrida with the BBC's pitiful sneering.
nevertheless, the democratic, dessiminatory potential of the 'net fortunately wends its tenacious way through the slurry: pas-au-delà, michael bérubé, the weblog, the weblog, again, sweeteffay and k-punk.
Stay awake....
