Derrida down under

[Michael Hoover]

> Angela
> a case in point: i think the US version of deconstruction, which
> subsequently contracted into the outgrowth known as anti-foundationalism
> (or pragmatism) is perhaps one of the most conservative things about,
> and deserves as much scorn as can be heaped upon it.  notwithstanding
> this, there is a distinctly marxist turn in french deconstruction (eg.
> jean-luc nancy) which occurred before derrida's
> recentish book on marx, and should not be easily dismissed, even if it
> contains many problems.

Apologies if I've misattributed above to Angela.  I don't recall earlier 
posts that comprised most of her message and I may have incorrectly
followed who was saying what.

any listers read Michael Ryan's _Marxism and Deconstruction_ (1982)
which discusses a possible 'articulation' between the two (citing
Derrida's identification with an 'open marxism')?  Ryan argues that 
how we read or analyze and how we organize political and social 
institutions are related forms of practice.   Michael Hoover