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Jacques Derrida is the Picasso of bullshit artistry.
by gaur 10y ago
Jacques Derrida is the Picasso of bullshit artistry.
- thanatropism 10y agoCould be -- I know some so-called "post-modern" philosophers to be meaningful, but I know very little about Derrida. Still, where professor Dutch starts sounding like a crackpot is when he strawmans Latour and Derrida into a crusade against the purity of Scientific Objectivity. No deconstructionist I know of has ever picketed a chemical lab; "green activists" have done that -- and to throw christian young-earth creationism and Velikovsky on the lap of mr. Derrida, well, that just sounds like asking someone whether they have stopped beating their wife already. I do wonder if the rise of this scientistic reactionaryism (not the self-satisfied belief in science, but the need to go out and write lengthy rants on subjects they know nothing about) has to do with the stagnation of fundamental physics since the 1970s. I mean -- professor Dutch sounds like he was promises a priesthood and then denied access to God.
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- orthoganol 10y agoHe makes sense within a certain discourse. Whether you think that whole discourse is bullshit, I think is what's at hand.