Also on 18 November 2010 —
Monday, March 29, 2021
Graduate School
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Logocentric Citation
From the RSS feed of The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘s site
Arts & Letters Daily this evening —
“Despite the wide scope of his bibliography and reception,
Derrida was a specialist in a subfield of his own design,
more or less: the philosophy of writing, which upends
the privileging of speech over writing that has dominated
Western metaphysics since Plato. This ‘phonocentrism’
(which Derrida yarns into ‘logocentrism,’ and eventually,
‘phallocentrism’) starts from a false premise, that the
moment of utterance in Aristotle’s view is somehow more
rhetorically ‘present’ than the kairos of writing….”
— Andrew Marzoni, March 10, 2021:
“Outside the Text: Jacques Derrida resists
easy canonization in a new hagiography for the Left.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/outside-the-text-marzoni
A related image from this journal
on that same date, March 10, 2021:
Gap Dance
“Plato and Hegel always recognized the importance of the gap:
they invoke the gap (the opening, the separation, the division)
and they put it to work. The inescapable gaps that cannot be bridged,
that cannot be filled, play a central role in Derrida’s thought and in
our response to his death. The gaps in Derrida’s work resist the gap;
they swerve, deviate and wander (écarter ) – gaps move . When someone
or something takes pre-cedence (goes first, goes before, goes on ahead
and gives up its place ) a gap is opened. There (are) only gaps, the gaps
that Jacques Derrida has left behind him and in front of him: the
pre-cedence of gaps. This tracing of gaps (écarts ) is a preface to an
impossible mourning, a mourning that one must at once avoid and
affirm. It keeps returning to Derrida’s Dissemination (1972)….”
— Page vii of The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida ,
by Sean Gaston (Continuum Books, London/New York, 2006)
Later in the same book —
Friday, August 21, 2020
Gap Dance
“What would the pavement of the universe be
if there were gaps between the paving stones,
inaccessible and filled with nothing?”
— “Concerning Time,” by Iannis Xenakis and
Roberta Brown, on page 85, Perspectives of New Music ,
Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter, 1989, pp. 84-92).
This post was suggested by the Aug. 19 remarks of
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan in Scientific American .
Music for The Bowler and Casanova Frankenstein —
Image from the website of the Scientific American author.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Carney Art
Gap Dance
But more, much more than that …
… She did it side ways.
In some earlier news from Development Hell —
See as well this journal's report of a death on that date.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Hors d’Oeuvre
From the May Day 2016 link above, in "Sunday Appetizer from 1984" —
The 2015 German edition of Beautiful Mathematics , a 2011 Mathematical Association of America (MAA) book, was retitled Mathematische Appetithäppchen — Mathematical Appetizers . The German edition mentions the author's source, omitted in the original American edition, for his section 5.17, "A Group of Operations" (in German, 5.17, "Eine Gruppe von Operationen")—
That source was a document that has been on the Web since 2002. The document was submitted to the MAA in 1984 but was rejected. The German edition omits the document's title, and describes it as merely a source for "further information on this subject area." |
From the Gap Dance link above, in "Reading for Devil's Night" —
“Das Nichts nichtet.” — Martin Heidegger.
And "Appropriation Appropriates."
Thursday, January 23, 2020
The Demarcation of Nothing
"… nothing could be demarcated as 'hors d'oeuvre'…"
— Geoffrey Hartman in his Haskins Lecture for 2000
(quoted here on Columbus Day, 2004).
See also May Day 2016 and Gap Dance.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Gap Dance
From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":
IX
And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .
"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem