[lbo-talk] Butler on Derrida

[Michael Dawson]

I don't object to what Butler said, but rather to the length and artificial
complexity with which she said it.  "Jacques Derrida is my favorite and he
taught much about how to do what I do."  That's all she said.  A good writer
would have found a powerful way of saying that in two paragraphs, then gone
on to explain the importance of "what I do" might be.  This was supposed to
be an intellectual obituary, so it's pretty embarrassing to leave out that
last part.  Of course, when the answer is "little," there's silence on that
point.

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On Behalf Of Jeffrey Fisher
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Butler on Derrida

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

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:54:38 -0700 (PDT), Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> What's up with all the Derrida-bashing? I thought his
> stuff on Heidegger was annoying and the Post Card too,
> but Of Grammatology and Speach and Phenomena were not
> bad at all. His negative theology was pretty cool, if
> you're into that kind of thing.
> 
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