Subject: [BOU:] Politics of obituaries
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:23:50 -0400


I don't know if you noticed the ignorant piece of junk published as an 
obituary for Derrida in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/10derrida.htm

There's a protest effort against it:

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/remembering_jd/

I remember the same thing happening after Edward Said's death.

Compare this to the 10-page Le Monde take:

http://medias.lemonde.fr/medias/pdf_obj/sup_pdf_derrida_111004.pdf

best,

Emrah Goker
Department of Sociology
Columbia University

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