Quotes About Jacques Derrida

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.

The means are a technology of the sign, the "technical mastery" of the sign (65).

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.