Word: derrida
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...Jacques Derrida...
There is one really good joke in Jacques Derrida's Cinders. It takes some setting up. When he published the French texts Feu la Cendre and "Animadversions" (one on the left side of the page, the other on the right-- this is the kind of thing Derrida is always doing), he was asked to do a tape recording of the text...
...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...
...theories we learn are tools to get at whatever subject we are studying. They are around because they help people to understand the significance of the material. That's why Marx and Sassure and Derrida and all those other icons of socio-eco-polilinguistic theory exist. The problem, however, is that no matter how smart we are, we are not as smart as these people yet. (That's part of the reason why we have so much trouble coming up with original ideas...
...original Popsters may not have been great artists or even uniformly good ones, but they were Rubens and Poussin compared with these Derrida-spouting midgets. And if the graft of Conceptualism onto Pop has produced so little, it is only because the landscape of mass media presents no challenges to the artist: it is sterile now and incapable of a fresh thought or an authentic feeling. Better real ads and comics than exhausted "fine" art about them. That is one reason why our fin-de-siecle, at least in the domain of the visual arts, is turning into such...