In a message dated 8/10/99 4:20:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com writes: << 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 >> I like Baudrillard, actually :) I'd read the exergue for Of Grammatology then go hear Derrida. Take your chances :) Never hurts to look :) Jim