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Originally Posted by Glice
Yeah, totally - avoid 'On grammatology'; I absolutely adore glas for its rendering of sense transparent.
The one that always gets me is how he destabalises the narrative of 'madness' as being rejected by the sane, the neg-heroicism of 'outsider' worship. In contemporary terms, in a century marked by 'alienation culture' he offers a leftist politics that isn't asking for white apologism or 'other culture's' patronisation.
I can't find the talk he gave on SA, sadly.
Incidentally, there's been electricity blackouts all over SA and South Africa for months now.
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To be honest, I've tried to read a couple of things of his, and the things I can't understand I feel that I will never understand no matter what, either because of his largely incomprehensible writing style, or because it is actually only Derrida who understands it, and he is, in fact, a charlatan. That which I do understand (or feel I understand) seems to me to be complete trusim, and just not worth saying (i.e. his ideas about binary oppositions in meta-physics just seems so obvious, and not worth anybody's time). What also frustrates me about the whole post-modern cult is the way they laden really simple truisms in masses of complex verbiage, that you actually have to decipher, before realising it is in fact a relatively simple idea.