Deconstruction - Jacques Derrida

[@BasteonSanton]

To pretend deconstruction doesn't exist is to pretend Freud, Neitzsche, and Wittgenstein don't exist as well. They exist as much as Jesus Christ does. That's the great irony of the zombie metaphor because the idea of a zombie predates deconstruction. In popular culture zombies are usually a satire on belief as the end in itself. The intoxicating effect of pretension. The true hollowness of modernity and the institutions on which it is propped up. Do you really think its useful to pretend like the 21st century didn't deal modernity a body blow?

[@LitProf]

I have no idea what the 21st century has contributed to anything besides the advance of neo-liberalism, transhumanism, and posthumanism.

[@edsoney7583]

He who can think different can deny even other 's truth because of interest on particulars of dogmas and "parties" (political party)

[@czarquetzal8344]

@@edsoney7583 well, Lacan said: "The signifier can NEVER reach the signified."

[@Portitforward]

My take on it is that deconstruction rightly says "this photo is blurry and therefore cannot accurately represent the thing" but then leads to "so this is no photo at all". Is a blurry photo not still a photo? There is a reason why Motte and Bailey was primarily coined as an attack on the post-modernists.

[@teekuuu]

Thank you for this upload

[@joeroganconnoisseur7364]

Derrida, in short, was the Frank Abegnale or Saul Goodman of 20th-century philosophy.

[@glenncraig4043]

(Leonard referenced deconstruction in his article, and that's why I got interested.)

[@edsoney7583]

How can I read with hands while writing just as when I read with tongue silently or in loud voice?must we be first thinker than speaker or writer?

[@edsoney7583]

One starts to understand thinking& thought of his own through speaking just as reading a text.

[@czarquetzal8344]

I don't consider Deconstruction as anti-intellectual. In contrast, it stimulates endless intellectual debates.

[@LitProf]

Debates that its premises will never allow resolution.

[@myolss]

Yet, all good things have to come to an end. Otherwise it's an endless debate of the highest signifier being perpetuated within the reality of things. Who has the highest word?

[@edsoney7583]

How can one start understanding his own thought and feeling by way of writing his own text more than reading any other text written ??

[@glenncraig4043]

Hello, Dr. Masson. I turned to your lecture to learn something about deconstructionism, about which I know, well, zero, to use the term from your lecture. I think it's intriguing, but I could use an example to understand better. I see from your bio that Milton is one of your interests, and I was just reading an article on Milton as a punster (John Leonard, "Self-contradicting Puns in Paradise Lost' in the New Milton Reader, pp. 421-438). Can you take a text from Milton (or elsewhere) and show how Derrida might deconstruct it? Thank you very much. Glenn Craig p.s., are you related to Milton's biographer David Masson?

[@LitProf]

No relation to the famous biographer, so far as I know.

[@edsoney7583]

Let's state a metaphor.Why do not we speak the same language towards the idea?

[@terryvergos6365]

Thanks!

[@MrMusic-nd5to]

Excellent lecture!

[@LitProf]

Thanks. Feel free to share.

[@edsoney7583]

My matter subject is reading.Reading is fonocentric or fonologic?One does understand early in life reading as orality more than visualizing.Of course one must see what he reads just as he sees the thing.Just like one speaks one reads.

[@edsoney7583]

The kid says to his mom: I read you as I see your smile which I read.

[@edsoney7583]

If i concept when I speak and speaking is a way of thinking why can not I concept when I write?Is not the way writers think when they write?

[@Portitforward]

@49:49 That is a good circle

[@edsoney7583]

Mother loves the son through orality and she does not write what she teachs if love she is love and care.

[@octavioavila6548]

17:45 Looks like your lecture is getting deconstructed That pause there to fix the camera reveals the artificiality of the lecture situation. Hence, deconstructing the class. It shows that this is a performance, not natural, but conditioned. Hence why nobody has to perform a deconstruction. It happens by itself. It is in the nature of the text itself to find itself deconstructed not by anybody or anything

[@LitProf]

Good observation!

[@edsoney7583]

The concept of oneness I would develop in the year 1988 as of guiding the mind and body in life.I would teach to understand existence as a whole to resolve problems of ordinary life.My inspiration was the psichology of forms in one way.

[@arlieferguson3990]

“Anti-Logo centric“ might be taken to be anti-Christian but need not be. There have been periods in history where God was viewed as something beyond even human rationality. What it actually makes me think of is a Zen standpoint. Enlightenment and the path to enlightenment is all about getting beyond conceptual thinking.

[@LitProf]

It is anti-Christian, but it isn’t exclusively anti-Christian. Derrida specifically takes issue with Western philosophy since Plato. And its tendency is nihilistic.

[@arlieferguson3990]

@@LitProf Are you thinking that because Christ is considered the logos?

[@edsoney7583]

Master make me understand better how Thot's followers ignored the importance of writing as one of the most important matters invented to help human such as grammar and logic, rethoric and art to speak which should be completed by the art to write?

[@edsoney7583]

Even if a man is fool one needs brain memory to remember things and names and useful informations, even these are informations and speculations or superficial knwoledge.Fools live by faith like crazy and major part of humankind.But yet they exist in the existence sense.A poet looks like a crazy and paradoxal minded and he is an artist of the existence.Why the rulling class of the epoch of Karl Marx did not not stop him to write the book "Das capital" ?

[@edsoney7583]

In the prisions there are many people who knows all but all anout God and literature.

[@edsoney7583]

There is a women in Brasil which teaches the difference between dualistic thouht and paradoxal thinking.

[@edsoney7583]

It seems that a real spirit of truth must write through the hand of an other one.Its matter of mediumshipness?

[@AleArek]

NKJV Bible. James 1:23-24 [23]For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; [24]for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. Like people with knowledge written down and not swallowed. But Derrida goes in to other extreme. stares in to mirror for too long until his image is distorted, looking for cracks in the text, type of scriving.

[@edsoney7583]

They who writes in society are minority before those which really writes in society, wise able man to write wisdom to teach others.Superficial minds does writes to teach.

[@edsoney7583]

Eu sou a mosca que pousou na sopa.Disse o poeta pop. I am the flea that landed in your soap. Said the pop poet.

[@edsoney7583]

Langue and language are scripts.Otherwise we must see that orality is consequence of scripts due to langue and language.it is matter of structure and function.

[@edsoney7583]

We need light to see.In darkness one sees darkness and nothing to see.If one uses a metaphor to say one understands for ex love he can say he sees in the darkness of a world of hatred.

[@edsoney7583]

The major humankind does not write nothing how ever uses speech and words to think and to express and we do not know what ever they thought during their existence.I do not know what a medium mass man in

[@edsoney7583]

Logocentrism is also another " ism"