Re: What to make of Holden
Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:01:09 +1000
Jacques Derrida is, in a month or so's time, doing a speech (in a theatre
that just last week was playing my own work, coincidentally) - he must like
Australia as he turns up here every five years or so. Now, as Scottie would
know I'm a reknown Francophile. However, when even a senior lecturere at
Sydney University admits that a lot of Derrida is bollocks, *then* you have
to start worrying. I never studied him myself, he has too much of a
reputation for being downright impossible.
I'll hedge my bets on Baudrillard, tho. And by the way, check out a site at
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/community/postmodern.html. It's a Postmodern
Essay Generator. Scottie especially will get a kick out of this one (:
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
Paul Kennedy wrote:
> OK... If it's "You show me yours, and I'll show you mine...."
>
> I've read Lacan, Derridas (sp?) and Foucault.... (I had much more fun
> reading the medieval scholastic idiots whom they most resemble in
> intellectual history....)
>
> (I've also read MOST of Chomsky--and met him six or seven times.... And
the
> ONLY time he makes sense is when he's talking about REAL life.... IE the
> books that DON'T get published in the US of A because they're deemed--by
> that country's 'revolutionary' government--to be 'subversive'.....)
>
> Masturbation should ONLY be a last ditch defense!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
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