Negri interview

Peter Kosenko kosenko at netwood.net
Fri Oct 26 05:07:42 PDT 2001


I probably wouldn't call DeMan a crypto-Nazi. He tried all his life to hide the "youthful" indiscretion of his sympathy for the Nazis as defenders of "cultural purity." If it caused anything, it was probably his somewhat Mandarin tendency that all politics is "mere ideology" because it tries to evade the fundamental "ambiguity" of language that makes it unable to capture "truth." Or something like that. You know, the deconstructionist language game.

The term aporia could be traced back to Kantian antinomies in the Critique of Reason, couldn't it? Anyone on the list know that better than I do and have any thoughts?

Anyway, here are some other terms to watch out for: "mise en abyme" (J. Hillis Miller), differance (Derrida), differend (Lyotard). I think rhizome and rhizomatic (Deleuze?) have gone out of fashion, although pli (fold) might be in, given that the man later wrote a whole book about it (which I haven't read).

I have to go wash the dishes.

Peter Kosenko

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Chris Burford wrote:
>
> >You can spot initiates by those who slip the word "aporia" into
> >their communications.
>
> Hey, people at Yale were doing that in the early 70s, influenced by
> that crypto-Nazi, Paul de Man.
>
> Doug

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