Category Archives: derrida

Violence and Metaphysics, part 2

Posted on March 31, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Some rough draft I was working through today: The best liberation from violence is a certain putting into question, which makes the search for an archia tremble. Only the thought of Being can do so, and not traditional ‘philosophy’ or … Continue reading →

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Notes on Of Grammatology

Posted on March 13, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

It took me a bit to get started, but here we go… If, as Derrida suggests, writing threatens language, then digital technology extends this threatening, by engaging so many more people in the “play.” As the actors gather, as the … Continue reading →

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Davis > Derrida > Levinas

Posted on December 11, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s reading: John Muckelbauer’s “Rhetoric, Asignification, and the Other: A Response to Diane Davis” and D. Diane Davis’ “The Fifth Risk: A Response to John Muckelbauer’s Response”. Muckelbauer challenges the assumption that any discourse or pedagogy can claim ethical or … Continue reading →

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Life (or Something Like It)

Posted on December 10, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Finally. I’m back. My laptop’s hard drive died three weeks ago (a couple days after my last post). Stone dead. I had to send if off to the nice people at On Track Data Recovery and pay their extortion reasonable … Continue reading →

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Complexity Theory and Authorship as Plurality

Posted on November 9, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

There was a discussion on a listserv today regarding why the individual author has become a myth. I cranked out a short response and figured I’d share. The original poster referred to the Emersonian (right?) “nothing is original” mantra. While … Continue reading →

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A Friendly Response: Fuck theory and leave Derrida Alone

Posted on May 5, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A friend sent me this video on Derrida this morning. It is funny, and I encourage my friend and others to send me such things. But I do want to make a response, a response perhaps too serious for the … Continue reading →

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