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> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good. This is an invali
by derr342 12y ago
> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good.
This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one.
Let me try to make it more accurate.
For Knuth to be like Derrida his magnum opus would have to have been generated by just typing
cat /dev/random
and later claiming that MIX was somewhat defined in there as well as programs written in it. Then he would become famous Paris Hilton style and get a bunch of sycophants that defend his void verbiage no matter what (some because their entire carreers depended on it, others just because they are useful idiots).
- conatus 12y agoHi. How much Derrida have you actually read? Like sat down, with a pre-existing understanding of the fields he is interfacing with (particularly phenomenology and structuralism and semiotics a la Saussure) and then begin reading? Most approaches to continental philosophy I read on these pages are like someone jumping into a halfway point of a complex essay on functional programming, quoting it and declaring it nonsense. To people outside particular discourses, things often seem like nonsense. Within them, with enough background, one can see that these things are meaningful, while one might, of course, disagree.
- coldtea 12y ago>For Knuth to be like Derrida his magnum opus would have to have been generated by just typing: cat /dev/random You seem to have an uncanny knowledge of philosophy for a throwaway account. Tell us more about anything that you don't understand (not that you've actually tried or even went anywhere near Derrida/Continental philosophy) is /dev/random...