...the dangerous supplement...

[starfrosting]

Arrghh oh my god arguing with Cristina about Derrida and Spivak, in like really, really antagonistic ways. Oh my. It'd be a lot easier for me to engage in a critique of Derrida as eurocentric if C. didn't position Spivak as the panacea to that, having not ever read her. Sigh. As she put it, "I think what it is is that I just don't like philosophy." Ah, so that's why out 'talks' always end with such exasperation! (here let me just re-iterate, in derridean fashion, how grateful I am to have a girlfriend with whom I can argue poststructuralism.)

Oh wait: "I honestly don't find it a useful endeavor at all." Oh, wow.

Well, at least Grosz concedes that philosophy has no use-value in the usual sense of the word. Still, I think it's a useful endeavor. Hmmph.

Comments

[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

. . . I don't like philosophy much, either. Yet somehow I always end up talking to people who do.

[el-convenio.livejournal.com]

look, dude, we all gotta get our rocks off somehow. i like came on myself when i found an entire shelf of derrida in spanish at this bookstore that i like to frequent. not that i couldwould read it anyway. but the thought always makes me a little hot and bothered. i have run into some butler down here too. swoon.