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Derrida, Jacques

I am here for Networking

About Me

On Friday, October 8 2004, I died in a Paris hospital of pancreatic cancer... Bummer.

Schools:
Sorbonne, Ecole Normale Superieure, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris

Affiliations:
University of California, Irvine, John Hopkins University, Yale, NYU, The New School

Companies:
Margarite et mes fils

My Interests

I try to place myself at a certain point at which the thing signified is no longer easily separable from the signifier.

I'd like to meet:

People who will not mistake me for Exeter from This Island Earth.

Music:

What is music? During the course of the history of Western music, many have tried to formulate an answer to the question of the ontology of music. In order to distinguish between music and non-music, repeated attempts have been made to compile a list of essential properties of music along with the necessary and sufficient conditions. It is not my intention to represent any or all of my views on this matter in a systematic or all-encompassing order.

Movies:

Derrida The Movie, http://www.derridathemovie.com/

Television:

Television is technique that bears similarities with writing, more precisely with *ecriture*; qua 'technique', it echoes Heidegger's 'techne'.

Books:

A favorite book is always deferred.

Heroes:

Christopher Reeves, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, I guess that Foucault character.