Mentions (7)
"Zizek indirectly ruined Marxism as a tool or intellectual analysis by convincing millennial nerds that they could be daring intellectuals for coming up with hot takes on popular movies and TV shows on the basis of their philosophy 101 tier knowledge of Marx, Benjamin, Derrida etc."
"Or have we squeezed out most of what we can get out of music as an artform by now and are doomed to live out a hauntological musical ouroboros. But then again mark fisher or derrida never listened to The Barter 6…"
"Whereas in the late 70s, you'd have Jacques Derrida stop by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies to give an impromptu lecture, today you go to the World Around Symposium, pay $60 to sit in the Guggenheim basement listening to land acknowledgements and some vague mixed-media artist talk a"
"I know I'm sperging out over this and I should sink back into my Derrida like a good little Scare boy but I'm irked"
"If we take Derrida's definition of literature – literature is a text in which the 'thetic relation to meaning or referent' is 'complicated and folded,' a text that isn't simply about the thing that it's about, but which involves you in the processes and difficulties of getting from words to meanings"
"The section where he discusses Derrida saying "I am the ghost" on camera actually sent chills down my spine."