Wednesday, October 13, 2004
(10:37 AM) | Anonymous:
Derrida and Games: Jacques Derrida Week.
Derrida loved to play games and, he says, if he had the talent he would have become a soccer player instead of a philosopher. Some time ago I posted on Slavoj Žižek and the 6 degrees of separation between him and others, it almost seems more apt to show how interconnected Derrida is to us; after all, this kind of connection is a certain kind of dissemination. Derrida’s insight into dissemination and the complete hopelessness of pure things (which, it should be noted, is part of his fidelity to Husserl’s phenomenology) is considered a negative move by many but you can’t separate it from play and game. Not being pure is fun, and, in a world where such purity is impossible, there is a freedom which comes from revealing in dissemination as a game.So, I present to you the 6 degrees of Derrida to George W. Bush. Derrida wrote a letter of protest to President Bill Clinton (which you can find in Negotiations), whose secretary surely read it, who surely talked to Vice President Gore at a cabinet meeting or when Bill was giving him the slip, Gore had a series of debates with George W. Bush. We must conclude that Derrida has a far reach (Some have even suggested that the Republicans are students of deconstruction and other post-structuralists [I think they are full of horse shit, but what do I know?].).
