From University of Chicago Press in 1984:
"Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida,
and others, Mark Taylor extends—and
goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . "
—G. Douglas Atkins,
Philosophy and Literature
Update at noon on May 16 —
"Follow the Blood Arroyo to the place
where the snake lays its eggs."
— Westworld, Season 1, Episode 2,
air date October 9, 2016
This suggests a review of Derrida + Serpent
in this journal.
Backstory: That phrase in this journal.
““The serpent’s eyes shine
As he wraps around the vine….”
– Don Henley
With Derrida, as usual, playing the role of
the serpent, see a philosophical meditation from
October 9, 2014, by a perceptive and thoughtful Eve
that includes the following passage:
“But, before this and first of all, there is
the resistance posed by the work itself,
the hard kernel formed when the intelligibility
of a universal ‘message’ is joined to the
unintelligible secret of a singularity.”
See as well the word “kernel” here.
See also "Derrida + Serpent" in this journal.
This post was suggested by today's previous posts, Broom Bridge Day
and Taking the Fork, as well as by Alyssa is Wonderland.
For the meaning of the title, see Serpent + Derrida and Symbology.
A search for khora + tao yields a paper on Derrida—
A check of the above date— Nov. 18, 2010— yields…
| Thursday, November 18, 2010
m759 @ 8:02 AM
Peter Woit has a post on Scientific American 's new Garrett Lisi article, "A Geometric Theory of Everything." The Scientific American subtitle is "Deep down, the particles and forces of the universe are a manifestation of exquisite geometry." See also Rhetoric (Nov. 4, 2010) and Exquisite Geometries (May 19, 2009). |
Related material on the temptation of physics
for a pure mathematician—
This morning's post on khora and Cardinal Manning, and,
from Hawking's birthday this year, Big Apple.
Within this post, by leading us to the apple,
Derrida as usual plays the role of Serpent.
Alyssa is Wonderland
Manohla Dargis in The New York Times yesterday—
“Of course the character of Carroll’s original Alice is evident in each outrageous creation she dreams up in ‘Wonderland’ and in the sequel, ‘Through the Looking-Glass,’ which means that she’s a straight man to her own imagination. (She is Wonderland.)”
From Inside the White Cube—
“The sacramental nature of the space becomes clear, and so does one of the great projective laws of modernism: as modernism gets older, context becomes content. In a peculiar reversal, the object introduced into the gallery ‘frames’ the gallery and its laws.”
From Yogi Berra–
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Related material: For Baron Samedi and…
Part I: The White Cube
Part II: Inside
Part III: Outside
For remarks on religion
related to the above, see
Log24 on the Garden of Eden
and also Mark C. Taylor,
"What Derrida Really Meant"
(New York Times, Oct. 14, 2004).
For some background on Taylor,
see Wikipedia. Taylor, Chairman
of the Department of Religion at
Columbia University, has a
1973 doctorate in religion from
Harvard University. His opinion
of Derrida indicates that his
sympathies lie more with
the serpent than with the angel
in the Tansey picture above.
For some remarks by Taylor on
the art of Tansey relevant to the
structure of the white cube
(Part I above), see Taylor's
The Picture in Question:
Mark Tansey and the
Ends of Representation
(U. of Chicago Press, 1999):
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From Chapter 3,
"Sutures* of Structures," p. 58: "What, then, is a frame, and what is frame work? This question is deceptive in its simplicity. A frame is, of course, 'a basic skeletal structure designed to give shape or support' (American Heritage Dictionary)…. when the frame is in question, it is difficult to determine what is inside and what is outside. Rather than being on one side or the other, the frame is neither inside nor outside. Where, then, Derrida queries, 'does the frame take place….'" * P. 61:
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“Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas– only I don’t exactly know what they are!…. Let’s have a look at the garden first!”
— A passage from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. The “garden” part– but not the “ideas” part– was quoted by Jacques Derrida in Dissemination in the epigraph to Chapter 7, “The Time before First.”
“‘For you… he… we aren’t meaning…’ She was almost stammering, as if she were trying to say several things at once…. Suddenly she gave a little tortured scream. ‘O!’ she cried, ‘O! I can’t keep up! it keeps dividing! There’s too many things to think of!'”
— A passage from Charles Williams’s The Place of the Lion, Chapter 12.
“He was thinking faster than he had ever done, and questions rose out of nothing and followed each other– what was to will? Will was determination to choose– what was choice? How could there be choice, unless there was preference, and if there was preference there was no choice, for it was not possible to choose against that preferring nature which was his being; yet being consisted in choice, for only by taking and doing this and not that could being know itself, could it indeed be; to be then consisted in making an inevitable choice, and all that was left was to know the choice, yet even then was the chosen thing the same as the nature that chose, and if not… So swiftly the questions followed each other that he seemed to be standing in flashing coils of subtlety, an infinite ring of vivid intellect and more than intellect, for these questions were not of the mind alone but absorbed into themselves physical passion and twined through all his nature on an unceasing and serpentine journey.”
— A passage from The Place of the Lion, Chapter 10.
— Good Will Hunting
See Remembering Jacques Derrida.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."
"Différance is, for Derrida, the key concept
in order to understand what is here at stake."
— Lacan 
Derrida, by Frida Saal
The following entries from October 2004
are related to the death of Jacques Derrida.
| Saturday, October 9, 2004 6:40 PM
Derrida Dead "Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's office announced. He was 74." — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times "There is no teacher but the enemy." — Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Saturday, October 9, 2004 2:22 AM Belief KERRY: "I'm going to be a president who believes in science." KERRY: "I'm a Catholic – raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me today." BUSH: "Trying to decipher that." Friday, October 8, 2004 5:07 PM Behush the Bush
"There's where. First. "… we all gain an appreciation of how each of us can provide readings that others are blind to and how each of us is temporarily blind to other feasible readings. Reading the text becomes a communal act of discovery…. No one has much to say, for now, about the grass reference…." — Reading Finnegans Wake (1986) The phrase "snake in the grass" seems relevant, as does the opening of Finnegans Wake:
Related material: and, for Matt Damon, |
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