At 08:13 AM 10/26/2004, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>the negative theology-related stuff is outstanding (of course, that is
>*exactly* what i do), but apparently politically incorrect, because it
>involves difficulty, i suppose, and what we're about as good
>dialectical materialists is reducing all of life to the simple (so it
>can be understood and used by "the people", who are, i guess, simple
>-- except when they're reading kapital). i'm just guessing, there,
>since i don't pretend to psychoanalyze all this derrida-hating the way
>derrida-haters presume to psychoanalyze derrida and
>deconstructionists. gag, gag, gag, indeed. oh my god! someone likes
>being famous! that bastard!
>
>and wrt michael's comment, what more does judith butler need to say
>(in a god-damn memorial piece, for chrissakes) than that she likes
>derrida and owes him a debt, as do we all? i suppose she should have
>properly deconstructed death, or something (actually, she nearly does
>this, but then that will only make her that much more reprehensible).
>
>j
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