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Originally Posted by racehorse
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Is Derrida anything more than white noise?
I can't work it out.
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Yeah, totally - avoid 'On grammatology'; I absolutely adore
glas for its rendering of sense transparent.
The one that always gets me is how he destabalises the narrative of 'madness' as being rejected by the sane, the neg-heroicism of 'outsider' worship. In contemporary terms, in a century marked by 'alienation culture' he offers a leftist politics that isn't asking for white apologism or 'other culture's' patronisation.
I can't find the talk he gave on SA, sadly.
Incidentally, there's been electricity blackouts all over SA and South Africa for months now.