Yeh I’ll admit these are pretty much straight barz he’s spitting. But they’re points we should all already agree on.
The issue in for me is why is deconstruction necessary? What is insufficient in the analytical tools we already have, like materialist dialectics, or what they contain themselves implicitly for analysing critically essentialized ideas?
Like there alot of clear value in Spivak but my gawd its not necessary to write like that. I struggled reading through everything I’ve read to her.The dope shit in her writings I can imagine being arrived at without reference to Derrida or deconstruction.
If I’m wrong regarding above points please point in right direction :)
Also, not that its directly relevant to the validity of her theoretical work I’ve also heard from people who studied under her that she treats her research assistants like garbage and makes them clean her driveway and shit. Might of been bullshit but lmao.
Also don’t forget how Derrida writes about cats. Peak case of critical support.
I mean, if you’d like another example where I think Derrida is helpful, there’s always gender. As far as I know, there are very few dialectical materialist accounts of gender that recognize the existence of trans and non-binary genders and those that there are usually seem like a mixture of empirical and historical facts to me. I’m trying to say that I usually find them theoretically inadequate. In contrast, when Derrida writes about Hegel or about Heidegger and their conceptions of sex/gender, it obviously doesn’t have a direct application to reality but for exactly that reason, I find it much more interesting and insightful. Now, I could of course be wrong and maybe it’s a question of what you want of out of theory, but that’s my view.
Yeh I’ll admit these are pretty much straight barz he’s spitting. But they’re points we should all already agree on.
The issue in for me is why is deconstruction necessary? What is insufficient in the analytical tools we already have, like materialist dialectics, or what they contain themselves implicitly for analysing critically essentialized ideas?
Like there alot of clear value in Spivak but my gawd its not necessary to write like that. I struggled reading through everything I’ve read to her.The dope shit in her writings I can imagine being arrived at without reference to Derrida or deconstruction.
If I’m wrong regarding above points please point in right direction :)
Also, not that its directly relevant to the validity of her theoretical work I’ve also heard from people who studied under her that she treats her research assistants like garbage and makes them clean her driveway and shit. Might of been bullshit but lmao.
Also don’t forget how Derrida writes about cats. Peak case of critical support.
I mean, if you’d like another example where I think Derrida is helpful, there’s always gender. As far as I know, there are very few dialectical materialist accounts of gender that recognize the existence of trans and non-binary genders and those that there are usually seem like a mixture of empirical and historical facts to me. I’m trying to say that I usually find them theoretically inadequate. In contrast, when Derrida writes about Hegel or about Heidegger and their conceptions of sex/gender, it obviously doesn’t have a direct application to reality but for exactly that reason, I find it much more interesting and insightful. Now, I could of course be wrong and maybe it’s a question of what you want of out of theory, but that’s my view.