Comments on: Jacques Derrida 1930-2004

by: ryano

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:49:04 +0000

Hi Sam, good to hear from you. In my view Derrida is the man - Cixous and de Certeau I’ve managed to largely avoid, and strangely enough I’ve never found myself in a situation where I’ve felt at a loss for having done so.

by: Sam Healy

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:42:39 +0000

Excellent stuff Ryan. (Sister Neuron pointed me to your de-deconstructionist masterpiece.) Ironically, in my mercifully hazy recollection of French academic twatmanship, I think of Derrida as among the lesser offenders. Michel de Certeau and Hélène Cixous jointly get my vote as the most verbally incontinent bilgespraffers ever to rob numberless innocent undergraduates of hours, grades, inner peace and the love of language. Because really, having waded through boundlessly prolix, insufferably smug, ostensibly playful yet fundamentally priggish Cixous tomes, or navigated the treacherous pretension-minefields of one of de Certeau’s massively tautological, self-important, self-referential, meta-cretinous, sesquipedalian litanies of puffed-up codswallop, can you ever consider literature to be other than a migraine-inducing poison?

by: jo

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:16:40 +0000

hey ryano. we must discuss Derrida more often. always already my mind is filled with new (at least to me) notions, concepts, ponderings, musings and good ideas, (unlike the bad-eyed deer which didn’t see the hunter)!

by: Eileen Meade

Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:32:55 +0000

Enjoyed this very much. Never knew Derrida could be such fun! More of same on return from Oz, have a great holiday. I’m all for simplfication of language, myself.

by: Aisling

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:37:42 +0000

I agree with Eoin, Genius Ryano!

by: ryano

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:32:55 +0000

Thanks Eoin. I wrote this a few years ago when I had more free time to be, um, creative. Feel free to pass it around if you know of anyone who might appreciate it.

by: Eoin

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:35:02 +0000

It’s gotta be said. Genius Ryano, just plain genius.