Word: derrida
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Derrida agreed, and with Carole Bouquet and Stockhausen's Stimmung behind them, they read it. The cassette was sold with a version of the text...
...joke. Derrida wonders "what is a word for consuming itself all the way to its support (the tape-recorded voice or strip of paper, self-destruction of the impossible emission once the order is given) to the point of assimilating it without apparent remainder?" Buried in that parenthesis (and several other places) is an allusion to Mission Impossible: this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds. I thought it was funny...
...anyone who has never read anything by Jacques Derrida, Cinders is (obviously) not the place to start. That place is still Of Grammatology, which engages just about every discipline in the humanities or social sciences at one time or another...
...someone who has at least made a start on Derrida, and who has the 25 bucks to spend on a book of less than a hundred pages, Cinders is worth it. You can read it in an afternoon and go to dinner and have an intense discussion about whatever it made you think about...
Translator and introducer Ned Lukacher, at least, knows this going in. but he overcompensates. Instead of describing what the book talks about, he goes in for some serious "thinking of being," tying tight knots between Derrida and Heidegger, and asking a lot of questions he doesn't answer--like "Why does language bear within itself the traces of something that cannot be exhausted by pragmatics and historicity, something from which the pragmata of history themselves arise...