you quoting Derrida? smile when you "say" that Patrick F. Durgin
-----Original Message----- From: kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca <kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Sunday, October 17, 1999 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Hate crimes
>On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:36:46 -0500 Carrol Cox
><cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>> Of course Kenneth's exposition is even more absurd, "If we
>> start with the IDEA of language." How odd. Do we start
>> with language or do we start with the idea of language?
>> One can't have it both ways.
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>The idea of language appears historically *after* the fact
>of language / communication / symbolization. It is both a
>presupposition *and* a performative reconstruction. So we
>start with the idea, filled with nonsense, fill it with
>sense, and contradict the idea with the content. Language
>is nothing more than self-relating negativity. And still,
>we cannot think without language, nor make sense of our
>surroundings.
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>Thoughts without a thinker? I don't think so.
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>I am thinking therefore I exist.
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>I do not exist where I am thinking.
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>It gets bettter: self relating negativity is creatio ex
>nihilo. Think about it.
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