"it is no longer a question of dionysus down below, or of apollo up above, but of hercules of the surface, in his dual battle against both depth and height: reorientation of the entire thought and a new geography." (deleuze, the logic of sense)

However, if you REALLY want to read something that blows the doors off of the insufferable irrelevance and reductionist post modernists, check out the "Traditionalists" Julius Evola and Rene Guenon. Much more interesting, original, usefull and engaging than horndog Jaques.

it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find any place where derrida calls himself a postmodernist. rather, he's a part of the post-structuralist movement emerging from the early '60s, and one of the most brilliant, democratic, and cautiously hopeful thinkers of the last 100 years. read him.

I have read "him". Perhaps I should have been more clear. Post-modernity and post-structualism have simply melted together in my mind into the same sea of hyper-reductionist drivel. It was interesting and innovative to me when I was a philosophy major in college woe those many years ago. At the time, the language and play that I saw existing in post-modernity was quite lovely and engaging.

At some point along the way, however, I recognized that it was nothing more than the retelling of centuries old heresies in an intellectually inconsistnat fashion. It has lead to a glut in lazy scholarship, the embracing of some of the most attrocious writing in every academic field, and has confused language with ideas - (not meant in a sign theory direction).

Save my criticism of reductionism which is held in such high regard by derrida.

The most powerfull thinkers of the 20th century, IMO, are Nietzsche, Whitehead, and Guenon. Everything else is a commentary on their works, or a commentary on the Republic - Unenlightened and vindictive.

Philosophy is usefull. Its powerfull. It's art.

Its one of the only true pursuit of the human mind.

It isn't a collection of books that you glean for interesting quotes to throw out at BBQ's after a couple of Lowenbrau's with the prolls.

And Derrida was an asshole.

Go have some fun with the 'bros.

I assume you got the reference.

"This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it. Our weapons are quiet. Precise. In time, I will teach them to you. Tonight, you will rely on your fists and your brains. Tonight, we are the law. Tonight, I am the law." - Batman

"The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals." - Hegel

"People think it's an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It's never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." - Batman

“The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.” - Hegel

"The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act." -Ra's Al-Ghul (from the last Batman movie)

“To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.” - Hegel

I thought my post was well thought our and insightfull. There are just entirely too many haters in the room.

RESPECT!!!

Even the ridiculous of Chav's posts seem to generate more comments than any of the art posts on Slog. He gets people on weird tangents, and there is something to be said for the inane things he writes that people take to a new level, like in this post for example.

and no, I am not unemployed. =)

Yow.