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Geschlecht II
#Heidegger's Hand
by Jacques #Derrida

https://www.beyng.com/pages/en/Derrida/Derrida-GeschlechtII.html

#Derrida

Dogs of #Metaphysics

#Nietzsche #Heidegger #Wittgenstein #Derrida

I wrote more about haunted manuals. Part 1 defined the terms. Part 2 gave counterexamples. Now, at last, here come examples.

A taxonomy of old haunted manuals
Your manual is haunted. But how, exactly? (Haunted manuals part 3)

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-08-25-a-taxonomy-of-old-haunted-manuals/

#TechnicalWriting #Hauntology #Derrida #Documentation #HauntedManuals

Haunted manuals

You've heard of the curse of knowledge, but could your manual be haunted as well?

How might a manual be haunted? Wait, what is the curse of knowledge? What the heck is hauntology? I answer those questions and give a few preliminary examples of haunted manuals.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-08-11-haunted-manuals/

#TechnicalWriting #Hauntology #Derrida #Documentation #blog #blogging

In The Collector

Is Everything Meaningless? Jacques Derrida & #Postmodernism
by Luke Dunne

"#Derrida sees #Heidegger’s work as so important in part because it offers ways of rebelling against the tendency towards “presence”—he thinks, for instance, that if we can turn away from presence and towards absence, we can start to understand what is present in terms of what is not."

https://www.thecollector.com/jacques-derrida-postmodernism/

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Jacques #Derrida's
Geschlecht
sexual difference, ontological difference

#Heidegger
https://beyng.com/pages/en/Derrida/Derrida-GeschlechtI.html

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The Keep. Uncanny Propriation. Derrida's Marrano Objection
by Alberto Moreiras

"#Derrida, in what ultimately must be recognized as the very cipher of his difference with #heidegger names marrano the vortex of disappropriation for any possibility of authenticity, for any possibility of authentic existence"

https://www.beyng.com/docs/MoreirasTheKeep.html

It is god’s ethical command to translate the untranslatable. #Derrida #TheGoldenRule #TowerOfBabel

When a single word stands in for a tangle of messy ideas about the very way we use words to mean things and what that implies about all of Western culture, it’s a hard to pin down what that word means. In my latest post, I don’t so much define logocentrism as take you along with me on my Columbo-like journey of bumbling confusion.

** Logocentrism again? **
You might think that words mean things, but what if the things aren’t there

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-04-07-logocentrism-again/

#blog #blogging #Derrida #logocentrism

I can’t stop thinking and writing about Of Grammatology. My last two blog posts were about it https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/tags/derrida/
and I have outlines and drafts for at least three more and even more ideas.

(But I might switch topics this week just so it doesn’t become an all #Derrida all the time blog)

I made my poor #FirstYear students read #Derrida this week for some reason. After an hour of Proper #Academic Discussion I had them find/ post Derrida #memes and tbh it was probably more productive...

But what do I know, I do #medieval studies

Please enjoy our Padlet:
https://padlet.com/mfritzm/derrida-memes-n0lle5z90033dqvp

In recent interviews, Butler spoke about how she was not a very clear writer when she was younger so I expect the 1990 Butler to be far less easy going than the 2016 Butler (her introduction was new in the 2016 edition of Of Grammatology). Still, I know she’s an important thinker and I’m willing to slog if I must to get to the ideas.

#Derrida #JudithButler

So I’m re(reading) Judith Butler’s introduction to Of Grammatology and it is so good, so lucid, so clarifying, that I want to underline almost the whole thing.

Anyway, as a result I did what was only natural and ordered Gender Trouble from Powell’s.

#Derrida #JudithButler

Did you celebrate yesterday's holiday by drinking some green beer and now feel a bit bad?

Would you like to feel worse? Read my excessively long review of one of the 20th century's most annoying books.

>> Review: Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida <<

I swear to Dog I will review this book like a normal book even if it gives me hives

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-03-17-of-grammatology-derrida-review/

#blog #blogging #Derrida #deconstruction #grammatology #semiotics #Rousseau #Kant

Read my latest blog post, a freewheling book review of one othe 20th century's most annoying books:

>> Review: Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida <<

I swear to Dog I will review this book like a normal book even if it gives me hives

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-03-17-of-grammatology-derrida-review/

#blog #blogging #Derrida #deconstruction #grammatology #semiotics #Rousseau #Kant Levi-Strauss

So of course I have to back and check, is this really as I remember it in #Derrida, whom, like pretty much all readers, I never feel I have 100% understood or can undertand (unlike nice, friendly #Kant who may be a pain in the ass but I actually trust him to eventually make sense even if I might disagree with some premises). Then I might have to go check out the theory the aricle alludes to and compare it to Derrida and dog knows if I'll be able to understand it.

I am back on my bullshit (reading Derrida and checking my notes from 2019 when I got most of the way trhough Of Grammatology) bcs in an article about LLMs, a quoted researcher seems to make the claim that the idea that language is all signs which point to signifiers is a 20th century idea and acts as if the idea of language as signs in a system of signs that derive their meaning from the interplay of signification with no originary presance of meaning is a new idea--when it's all in #Derrida)

#Derridaddy #Derrida #philosophymemes See https://www.tumblr.com/estarthewicked for more!

#Derrida: "I'm interested in the way I write, in the form, the language, the idiom, the composition. When I write a text I'm as attentive to, let's say, the content as to the formal style and also to the performative shape, the genre, all the aspects that belong to a given genre" (Critical Intellectuals on Writing, p. 62).