File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9903, message 222


From: "Ann Klefstad" <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Re: Jacques Derrida?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:57:31 -0800




--Many snippets from:

--------
 John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
>> 
> Derrida does not distinguish between fiction and philosophy,

> rather than yearing to escape it 
> via mad Caesar/God fairy tales.
> 
> He does this by lively deconstruction of fiction and philosophy
> and culture to show how lies and conceits are pilfered and
> institutionalized, that is, sneakthief artifice, 


>what else can an artist intellectual do to escape
> regular work.
> 
> 
But that's our distinguishing human characteristic, I mean that's it--we
can make things up.

It's not something to sanction or mistrust, it's what we *do* as humans. We
make things up, guided by webs and patterns of resemblance.

Philosophers have always hated this, the corrosion of resemblance attacking
identity.

You know, I love philosophy, but only as a vice.

AK


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