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Hauntology and Extinction: The Case of Some Weird Bugs

Posted on 02/02/2016 by

NPR posted a story a little while back about these giant insects that went extinct except for a few surviving members that lived under a bush on a giant rock outcropping in the ocean. It sounds like something out of … Continue reading →

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Derrida on Althusser (dead)

Posted on 10/17/2013 by

At the bottom, I know that Louis doesn’t hear me; he hears me only inside me, inside us (though we are only ever ourselves from that place within us where the other, the mortal other, resonates). And I know well … Continue reading →

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Derrida Accidentally Wrote About The Power of the Selfie in 1981

Posted on 09/03/2013 by

Time: the metonymy of the instantaneous, the possibility of the narrative magnetized by its own limit. The instantaneous in photography, the snapshot, would itself be but the most striking metonymy within the modern technological age of an older instantaneity. Older, … Continue reading →

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