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Sorry, I mean to refer to the 'structure of representation' qua the possibility of repetition. Hence the losing remarks of the chapter: "Without reduc...

"As to what meant by continuity and discreteness, they preserved a discreet and continuous silence..." - Bertrand Russell Y'know he was real proud whe...

I dunno man, this just literally sounds like nonsense to me. Not trying to put you down, but there's no-sense I can make of it. It's just standard woo...

Web, network, ecology - yeah, those are apt phrases. Immanence doesn't 'stop', the reasons 'keep going', this is the 'vertigo of immanence' that Deleu...

They develop it in lots of places, and as I said, the history that I quoted is extremely condensed. Understanding the ideas require a pretty good gras...

Nah, it's not an explicitly spiritual idea at all. In phenomenology, for example, transcendence generally refers to a certain structure of subjectivit...

I wanna post some snippets of Martin Hagglund's reading in his Radical Atheism, where he comments on and extends Derrida's arguments here in a way tha...

Eh, that phrase might as well read that it's a fallacy to regard circles as anything other than squares. In any case, the conceptual issue would turn ...

In truth, the very idea of a practice of contemplation strikes me as an oxymoron. But I'd rather simply not talk about mysticism. I honestly have noth...

Eh, that kind of 'radical libertarian freedom' is a myth on par with a loving God for me, and a concept far more mystical and occult than anything a s...

Yeah, I understand how the living present supposed to 'work', but the question at the heart of this chapter remains: is there a way, in principle to d...

But Husserl's 'own insistance' is just as much that retention and protention are 'the opposite of perception' - this isn't something Derrida is claimi...

But surely the key quote (from Husserl) is the one at the bottom of p.55 and runs over to p.56: "If we now relate the term perception with the differe...

If anything, the insistence on immanence means that the universe can indeed be made sense of; that sense is engendered within the universe, and we don...

Yall forgetting the arch-hipster, Sartre: http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.1655042.1389720067!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/imag...

Man, you could have just opened with this, at least this is something vaguely concrete rather than just meta nonsense. Two points to make here. First,...

Not rejecting 'structuralist principles of meaning' (an awkward phrase to begin with) doesn't make one a structuralist. And again, what kind of struct...

Not at all.

Well go on then, make a damn statement with some examples and citations, and stop speaking in this uncommitted 'meta' manner about what you want to ta...

Just to clarify, you asked me the stupidly broad question of whether or not there is a "commonality between the attitudes of say Foucault, Deleuze and...

There probably are commonalities, no less than they are differences. But this is of course to say literally nothing at all. That's what happens when y...

Yes - which is why "they" are wrongly referred to as postmoderns, except by the ignorant and the unstudied.

What discourse of postmodernity? Who said it? Whose theory of truth? Which take on universality? Despite, or better, in spite of your total ignorance ...

Then they can pose their claims, their account of those claims, and then one can debate over those accounts and how they coordinate with various presu...

Riley isn't a phenomenologist (or at least she doesn't claim to be), she's just someone who's writing I find helps bring out many aspects of the 'inne...

Eh, I feel differently, but then, there's no argument here.

What I like about Riley's description(s) is it's attention to the different valences of the 'inner voice'. The inner voice not as one 'kind' of speech...

Phenomenologically, my favorite writing on the topic actually comes from Denise Riley, a philosopher/poet whose essay "A voice without a mouth: inner ...

Yes, with qualification. At this point in his writing, thought remains a matter of 'words' for M-P (i.e. the first line you didn't quote: "Thought is ...

I've always liked Merleau-Ponty's take on this, who provides an account of the transcendental illusion (or what he calls the 'trick') involved in thin...

Please come back when you're done mixing up categories.

Literally none of the quotes you Literally none of these quotes even use the word 'sign', and your quip about 'the name of that ideality is sign' simp...

Sorry Meta but this is a total garble. Not only is there no textual evidence for any of this (can you cite, exactly - page number and quote - where 1)...

But that whole critique is muddled! Necessity qualifies possibility - that is, for a sign to be a sign, the possibility of it's repetition is necessar...

This thread is too funny. The OP makes an offhand remark about 'postmodernism' and people lose their shit. It's like one of those Manchurian candidate...

Ya the usual story goes that Derrida took a Heidegger's conception of the history of metaphysics ('ontotheology' in Heidgger) and transformed it into ...

Yeah, I can see that. There's definitely a kind of repetitious formalism that's at work everywhere in Derrida, and part of his stylistic and thematic ...

Yeah, exactly. Full presence and total absence are basically the same thing for Derrida, and the whole point of Derrida is to conceive of the space (a...

I think I'd be careful in framing this talk of possibility in terms of counterfactuality. At issue is not the choice between two different possibiliti...

I think these examples betray a misunderstanding. Idiosyncratic does not mean 'used only once'. The notion of idiosyncrasy at stake turns not upon mat...

What's the point of your contribution to this thread other than to be a prat?

I guess the question is: how could an idiosyncratic sign be a sign? That is, if a sign is in principle unrepeatable (and when I think about it, the on...

Blockchain tech was and is actually the basis of bitcoin, and was in use as such before the accounting boffins got a hold of it. Since they did though...

Preempting a little, this 'digging deeper' is exactly what Husserl does in the Lectures on Internal Time Consciousness, which Derrida will shortly tur...

On to some thematics: Originality of the Sign Part of what's at stake in Derrida's reading here is to affirm what he refers to as the 'originality of ...

Once the Derrida reading group is over - in a couple of weeks - would anyone be up for a Monadology and/or Discourse on Metaphysics reading group? (Th...

Righty-o, fourth chapter, where things get interesting. Derrida decidedly shifts from commentary to critique, and there's finally some payoff after th...

Damn fine clarification regarding the ireell. I'll be keen for summerizing 4 - it's where things start to get real interesting :D

Yeah, evolutionary psychology and it's twin cousin, sociobiology, and incredibly suspect 'sciences', and I think you're entirely right to find them so...

You're entirely right that natural selection functions as a restraint, but it's important to remember that natural selection is one of a myriad of evo...