* * Yowsa, I have missed what launched this particular barb, but there would appear to be "banal simplicity and contempt" on both sides here, ja?
Kettle, meet pot. I've drifted far off to the left -- & not right -- with Derrida as a 'guide' (we all need our guides) and have not found myself shaking the Stasi stick. There's quite intriguing work being done in philosophy of technology with Derrida these days, which is perhaps more of interest to Nettime in any case -- I'm sitting here looking at a pile of heavy-thought books demanding some serious attention: David Wills - Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology & Politics Miguel de Beistegui - Truth & Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology As well as the work of Peter Solterdijk [ http://www.petersloterdijk.net/ ] & Graham Harman. Just saying there's more to Derrida than Spivak, and more to Spivak than post-colonial 'contempt' -- unless you want to paint them all with the same (ideological) brush, command us all how to think about 'them', and then burn their books? Now that wouldn't be 'centric', would it? <!> > Hi, > > if you identify with Europe or in some way do something (positive) > with the idea of Europe you are a Eurocentric. It is that simple, > Alex. The logic of the politically correct post-colonial people that <...> . . tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- McGill Communication & Philosophy resistance . through . rhythm . ||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||| # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
