Word: derrida
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...stuff is diverse. Anguished lit majors scribble attacks on Derrida. Inarticulate crammers write obscenities on nearby walls. And the simply lovesick bemoan humanity...
...Chinese students had read their Foucault, they would have known that repression is inscribed in all language, their own included, and so they could have saved themselves the trouble of facing the tanks in Tiananmen Square. But did Vaclav Havel and his fellow playwrights free Czechoslovakia by quoting Derrida or Lyotard on the inscrutability of texts? Assuredly not: they did it by placing their faith in the transforming power of thought -- by putting their shoulders to the immense wheel of the word. The world changes more deeply, widely, thrillingly than at any moment since 1917, perhaps since...
However, shallow characterizations of many groups, whether ethnic, regional or occupational, are a standard feature of modern culture. The Harvard community alone offers many examples: "Adams House members all wear black, smoke and read Derrida," or "statistics concentrators all wear hornrimmed glasses and bowties," for instance...
...Derrida's answer is twofold. The first part is contained largely in the left-hand page of Cinders, and amounts to saying "Before Auschwitz, philosophy was barbaric...
...question is not one of appropriating the cinders at all. "It is, however, a question of making a withdrawal," he writes near the end. Trying to imagine the absolute withdrawal of the world, an impossible mission--Derrida does that all the time...