I saw Jacques Derrida:)

[Kenazo]

I was at a conference and there was a special panel discussion with Derrida. The panel was "Derrida on Religion", it was actually not as good as I was hoping it would be...the questions were fairly lame. However it was amazing to see Derrida in person and hear him speak.

Anyways, that's my excitement for the week...has anyone else heard him speak before? How did you find him in person?

 

[beatniks3]

i never heard him speak live, but that must have been cool. did he give the speech in english? what & where was this conference? wonder how many people on this forum have read his work? also wonder why i have so many questions today!

 

[StageLeft]

who

 

[TCPpacket]

somebody please enlighten me. who is this?

 

[beatniks3]

derrida is a famous french deconstructionist. some of his best work IMHO concerns our postmodern method of lifting qoutes of various texts and placing them together in effect creating a single intertext, a whole of which all text is mated through in a gird-like combination...

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: beatniks3
derrida is a famous french deconstructionist. some of his best work IMHO concerns our postmodern method of lifting qoutes of various texts and placing them together in effect creating a single intertext, a whole of which all text is mated through in a gird-like combination...

 

[beatniks3]

what?

 

[Kenazo]

beatniks - I'm glad someone appreciates my excitement He gave the speech in English which was rare, the conference was in Toronto. Apparently, some of his best seminars were done while he was at Villanova.

Anyways I'll tell you more impressions later now that I know someone cares!

 

[beatniks3]

i would love to see him and a score of other french theorists...someday, right? But then again i would like to learn to speak french before i meet them so i could speak with them in their language.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: beatniks3
derrida is a famous french deconstructionist. some of his best work IMHO concerns our postmodern method of lifting qoutes of various texts and placing them together in effect creating a single intertext, a whole of which all text is mated through in a gird-like combination...

yeah..

umm..

on saturday mornings i like to watch pokemon and read my superman comics.

last night i made words out of smiley faces on instant messenger and bought a dozen dounouts from the store.

then i took a nap.

 

[Jfur]

very cool