/lit/ - Literature

joke: derrida ruined academia you guys

woke: academia was ruined precisely because derrida was right and not because he was wrong

bespoke: when everyone is a minority then no one is. don't think like a fucking retard. derrida can show you how to do this, his kung-fu technique is very strong

Derrida does the same shit that Zizek does, to my mind. The same shit. He disarms and annuls bullshit arguments by showing you how they become recursive. That is his move. If you have a bullshit argument he's going to wreck it.

But the fact is that Derrida doesn't ultimately have to be any more left-wing than you want him to be. Deconstruction is kryptonite as much for radicalism as it is for anything, and on either side of the political spectrum, imho. It doesn't need to be associated with 20C political divides forever. My guess is that he probably would have liked to see those boring flash-points dissipate into the ether.

Getting trigged by Derrida is a pleb move the same way getting trigged by Rand is a pleb move.

Just my two cents.

>>9057410
I've read almost everything Nietzsche wrote. One of my favorite philosophers, hands down, no question.

I actually never found the question of free will vs determinism all that interesting; they seem like the same thing in the end. For me it's all about ideology, capitalism, desire, politics. But because all of that is recursive and mimetic, I like Pat Churchland's more sober perspective on this stuff. Everybody has a brain (and a body); maybe I'm just going to wind up a boring utilitarian out of pure information overload.

It's not like transhumanism is incompatible with Nietzsche, either. The Neetch only becomes more relevant with every passing year.

>>9044054
Prophetic.