Poststructuralism just doesn't have much to do with fundamental ontology (unless one takes the position that 1930s monopoly capital is the same thing as 1990s neoliberalism). The trace refers to telecommunicatory sign-systems and highly complex media of dissemination; Derrida is, on a certain level, Minitel's greatest philosopher. But those sign-systems are tied to the mediations of consumer capitalism, not phantasms of autarkic ethnicities or monopoly party-states.
- -- Dennis --------------------- It doesn't have much to do with fundamental ontology, but it has a hell of a lot to do with the destruction of the history of ontology that was the preoccupation of the late Heidegger. Read his Identity and Difference to see what I mean.
I'm all for historical materialism, but the neoliberalism = post-structuralism, monopoly capital = fundamental ontology assertion strikes me as crudely reductive in the extreme.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal