#jacques-derrida — Public Fediverse posts

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏

And when the child cannot speak for itself?

Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/original-omelas-case-animals-versus-man/

#podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism

AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/18/japan/lost-in-ai-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ai #artificialintelligence #literature #chatgpt #gemini #apple #airpods #iphone #friedrichschleiermacher #jacquesderrida #johannwolfgangvongoethe

More. Derrida. From 1972.

#JacquesDerrida #SystemsThatMatter

In "The world turned upside down" Searle related this conversation with Foucault about Derrida:

'Michel Foucault once characterized Derrida’s prose style to me as “obscurantisme terroriste.” The text is written so obscurely that you can’t figure out exactly what the thesis is (hence “obscurantisme“) and then when one criticizes it, the author says, “Vous m’avez mal compris; vous êtes un idiot” (hence “terroriste“)."

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/09/monday-assorted-links-528.html#comments

#MarginalRevolution
#JacquesDerrida #MichelFoucault

#CurrentlyWatching "Derrida", a 2002 documentary about the legendary #French philosopher #JacquesDerrida. TBH I don't know much about the guy, so I'm trying to learn me some stuff. Bonus: Soundtrack by #RyuichiSakamoto 🎞️ 👍 😁 #Philosophy #Humanities #Deconstruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0J1XVAOU0s

#JacquesDerrida bezeichnet mit der Begriffsschöpfung «#Grammatologie» die Wissenschaft der geschriebenen Schrift. Der 1967 veröffentlichte Text ist ein zentrales Werk des #Poststrukturalismus und um ihn geht es in unserem aktuellen #tldrPodcast. 👇
https://www.rosalux.de/mediathek/media/element/2487

So, once in a while, my mother sends us packages with a bunch of goodies. This time, mostly Christmas presents. However, the last time I was in France, I selected a bunch of my old books and asked her to include a few whenever she could. She usually picks them at random from the pile.

This time, can we say that shit got real?

#books #JacquesDerrida #Derrida #HakimBey #TAZ

“Debemos olvidar la lógica maniquea de la verdad y la falsedad y centrarnos en la intencionalidad de quienes mienten.”

Un 8 de octubre muere,
🖊️#JacquesDerrida (1930-2004)
El influyente filósofo francés de la deconstrucción.
#Filosofía

#atheism for #lent day 31: de-nomination

"...Here, we find in atheism a powerful *spiritual* weapon against idolatry."

http://courtcan.com/2023/03/24/atheism-for-lent-day-31/

#JeanLucMarion
#JacquesDerrida
#God
#faith
#denomination

Na moim blogu opublikowałem artykuł o filmie #TÁR, który uważam za wielopoziomowy komentarz dotyczący cancel culture, indywidualizmu, konformizmu, muzycznej erudycji, przemocy, nadużywania władzy i tracenia wizerunku.

W artykule unikam obnażania fabularnych twistów, ale – wchodząc w polemikę z Zadie Smith – zdradzam część epilogu.

Zapraszam do lektury:
https://szkup.pl/ten-ruch-batuty/

#CancelCulture #CateBlanchett #ErikaLopezPrater #FlorianHoffmeister #HildurGuðnadóttir #JacquesDerrida #LydiaTár #MarinAlsop #ToddField #ZadieSmith #film #Oscars

Redoing this with new character limit! Partial taglist of important-to-me #theorists, #TheoristActivists, #PublicThinkers, #Philosophers (there is an emphasis here on #theory to #praxis synergy):

#SaraAhmed #MonicaRMiller #AnthonyBPinn #ImaniPerry #JasbirKPuar #AchilleMbembe #JacquesDerrida #GayatryChakravortySpivak #ChristinaSharpe #ZakkiyahImaniJackson #KatherineMcKittrick #SylviaWynter #HortenseSpillers #TiffanyLethaboKing #JenniferCNash #AlexanderWeheliye #DionneBrand #HeatherPool #KateManne #JudithButler #TrishaRose #SaidiyaHartman #DonnaHaraway #bellhooks #PhilipDeloria #DeniseFerreiraDaSilva #AndreaSmith #AudraSimpson #JuliaSerano #MichelleAlexander #AudreLorde #KeeangaYahmattaTaylor #ToniMorrison #AliSmith (modern fiction writer, but I swear the most Derridean thinker I've run across) #MelissaHarrisPerry #SikivuHutchinson #AngelaDavis #ChristopherMDriscoll #ArenZAzura #MartinHaagland

Lookit, neither the chicken nor the egg came first. Which is to say, they both came first.

#SylviaWynter #JacquesDerrida

Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!

I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.

I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!

I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.

#philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #anarchism #communism #anticapitalism #mutualaid #prefiguration #ontology #phenomenology #poststructuralism #structuralism #mathematics #chaos #topology #imagination #art #education #linguistics #literature #music #machines #networks #cybernetics #systems #sustainability #ecology #technology #sciencefiction #utopia #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #MurrayBookchin #NoamChomsky #PeterKropotkin #AdamCurtis #KenLoach #AlbertCamus #GillesDeleuze #JacquesDerrida #JeanPaulSartre #MarkFisher #SimoneDeBeauvoir #FranzKafka #GeorgeOrwell #PercyByssheShelley #MaryShelley #UrsulaKLeGuin

I think the concepts & practices of things like #BlackJoy & #TransJoy are immensely important. I think they are directly linked to a lot of powerful theoretical work, too. Like Alexander Weheliye's #HabeasViscus. Like Christina Sharpe's #WakeWork. Katherine McKittrick's #DemonicGrounds (& thence into #SylviaWynter). And the one that's hooked me most into its cipher, Monica R Miller's notion of #AporeticFlow. (Her work is initially what motivated my work into #JacquesDerrida.)

@kyleford I'm not *precisely* #exvangelical but I'm pretty damn adjacent. And I'm definitely into the whole #deconstruction aspect, though partly owing to its fascinating doubled word play with #Derridean deconstruction. #JacquesDerrida

Few more, just because: #JacquesDerrida (I know I included above, but only by last name), #JuliaSerano #MichelleAlexander #AudreLorde #Keeanga-YahmattaTaylor #ToniMorrison #AliSmith (modern fiction writer, but I swear the most Derridean thinker I've run across) #MelissaHarris-Perry #SikivuHutchinson #AngelaDavis

#Introduction I am an Associate Prof of Romance Languages at Lyon College. I specialize in transatlantic #modernism and #frenchphilosophy particularly in the oeuvres of #samuelbeckett and #jacquesderrida I am writing a book on surfaces in French 20th century thought and editing a collection on the #marquisdesade My previous books are on modernists writers obsession with the figure of the mother, and in collaboration, on #tattoos as metaphors in literature.

What happens when everybody lies?

For the past few weeks I’ve been grappling with a problem: how to describe The Realists to someone not familiar with my work or this project. Initially – and its website still reflects this – I was focusing on the issues of erosion of privacy and the rise of surveillance capitalism in online advertising. Yes, these topics are part of it, but not the real heart of the documentary. And then it hit me. The simplest way to describe The Realists is this: how technology is changing our humanity.

My interview with photographer and (unwitting) Instagram influencer Sara Melotti addressed this. We spoke of unrealistic life standards promoted by social media.

Melotti said:

Today people are under a lot of pressure to be perfect because the idea everybody’s putting out there is… everything is perfect. Because on social media you only present a curated image of yourself and your life, you only present the best moments of your life, the highlights of your life, you don’t show when you’re sad or when you’re fighting with somebody, you only show yourself happy and everything is good, everything is great. Everybody’s doing that, not just influencers, like regular people are doing that too. […] So the collective idea that is going around that is getting ingrained into our consciousness is that you have to be perfect. You have to be happy, you have to be cool. And we’re not perfect, we’re not always happy. Happiness is a very relative term, is something that you can achieve for maybe a moment and then it’s gone. We shouldn’t aspire to always be happy, always be perfect because we are not perfect, we are humans. And I think the world is forgetting how to be human lately.

I’d venture to say that the big philosophical dilemma of our current age is: what happens when everybody lies?

In the spring of 2019 I had the opportunity to attend a live taping of The Happier Hour – a philosophy applied to real life show with illustrious guests, hosted by my friend Monica McCarthy. That day the theme of the show was “Designing Your Life With Debbie Millman and Jacques Derrida.”

Here is an excerpt of what the great Debbie Millman (of Design Matters) said (note: some sentences have been condensed for brevity and clarity).

So if everybody lies, you can’t trust anyone. And then what is the purpose? I don’t know, I was thinking, we are in that place right now. On Instagram.

So what are we doing on Instagram? Now, we’re manufacturing our lives in a way that only portrays our souls or persons as we want them to be perceived. And so what are we seeing? And what is true? And is there any truth to the way we’re showing up in this environment? And I think that that’s really scary. And what does then happen? When we all lie? Who can be believed? What can you trust? What can you rely on when you’re looking at a person’s life and all you’re seeing is basically a lie of omission? Because there it’s not an act of lying necessarily. But it’s really, “I’m only going to show you what I want you to know about me.” And therefore it’s only fake.

I went through a hard time when my dad died in 2015. And I wasn’t doing very well with the whole situation. And I’ve met a friend that I hadn’t seen in a while and she asked me how I was and I said, “Oh, you know.” I think I might have just like instantly started crying. And she said, “Wow, you seemed fine on Facebook.” And I’m like, “Everybody’s fine on Facebook.” And then I decided this is what we need: Shamebook. We need a place where we can just go and post all the things we’re ashamed of in our lives.

The way social media platforms have been designed, well, they have metrics front and center, making users hyper aware of the numbers of likes, comments, followers they have. That’s where lies come in.

In my interview with artist / researcher Ben Grosser, he said:

Visible metrics are perhaps the most effective way to activate users to pay attention to these platforms. I think this comes from… if we think about our evolutionarily developed needs as humans and we go back to the need for esteem. […] To survive we’ve learned we need to feel valued, whether it’s by ourselves or by others.

The way social media platform are designed, they drive users to desire to accrue likes and followers and comments. The easiest way to do so? By posting the “highlight reel” of our lives. Happy moments. Babies and pets and engagements and work promotions are always sure hits.

We have been trained for years – since the introduction of likes – to self-censor ourselves and only post content that we deem may be attractive to an invisible audience of our peers. Our online lives have become performative. It’s as if we are looking at ourselves through the eyes of a virtual audience and judging our experiences based on the feedback they receive online. Even before we post anything!

Ben Grosser added:

The fact that these numbers are there, they’re influencing us in ways that we have a lot of trouble perceiving, and it’s changing what we do. It’s changing what we pay attention to. It’s changing who we pay attention to. It’s changing who we think we should be friends with. And it’s changing what we write and what we say and what we think we should write and say within the social media platforms.

The irony in all this is that this social experiment is ultimately making a handful of technology platforms earn billions of dollars – on users’ free work. Our attention, our eyeballs, are a prized commodity.

In his latest blog post titled “WMDs” (Weapons of Mass Distraction) NYU business professor Scott Galloway writes:

We become what we pay attention to. So we are becoming celebrities people are addicted to … but don’t really care about.

When discussing these issues with friends and colleagues, I have heard too many times “The genie is out of the bottle.” There is a sense of inevitability when it comes to these profound changes to our humanity and how we interact with each other. Except… our every interaction should be seen as a deliberate choice. We get to decide how we communicate with others. We are responsible for our actions. We obfuscate details and paint a rosier picture of our lives in order to get likes on social media? It’s on us. We decide where we put our attention and we decide how we present ourselves to others. It’s our choice and one of the few things we can control.

If you lament how “fake” and hyper-idealized Instagram looks, maybe unfollow accounts that you find too performative? You think unfollowing is too brutal? Mute them. Or better yet, don’t use Instagram. I deactivated my account four years ago and never looked back. Ditto for Facebook.

How do I socialize? The old way, pre-social media, by picking up the phone to talk to friends or seeing them in real life. Remember, this was the standard way of doing things till the early-mid 2000s. When you put it in perspective and you think about the entire history of humanity, it was a really short time ago.

Certain internet behaviors are being presented to us as if they are inevitable, unavoidable. But they aren’t. Everything is a choice. We have agency in this.

The realist’s way may not be glamorous or give quick dopamine hits, but in the long run, it’s a pretty serene way of living life. This one precious life we have.

– Elena Rossini

#BenGrosser #DebbieMillman #illusions #JacquesDerrida #lies #philosophy #SaraMelotti #socialMedia

https://therealists.org/?p=7990