Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

Next year’s teaching

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was largely spent on administrative things at Durham. It feels very early to be planning teaching for the 2011/12 academic year, down to which lectures in which weeks and trying to ensure teaching doesn’t clash with the 2012 Association … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, teaching | Leave a comment

Boulainviller/Boulainvilliers

Posted on September 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton uses my last post to say something about his own work on Boulainviller/Boulainvilliers (the spelling is disputed) here. As I said in that last post, I’ve not read much of him so far, but he looks interesting. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Henri de Boulainviller, Jacques Derrida, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton | Leave a comment

Moretti on Deleuze & Guattari and Derrida

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

In a hundred-odd pages, the book by Deleuze and Guattari [Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature] contains a truly impressive amount of nonsense; just the opposite, to be fair, of Derrida’s essay on Ulysses, which in the same number of pages … Continue reading →

Posted in Franco Moretti, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida | 1 Comment

Reading texts, the canon, and historical access

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Having been away for the weekend I feel like the blog debate that has been going on about Derrida and realism has largely passed me by. That’s fine, in a sense, because it’s not something I’m especially concerned with. (You … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Gottfried Leibniz, Jacques Derrida, Jane Bennett, Jean Bodin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Robert Filmer, The Birth of Territory, Thomas Hobbes | 2 Comments

Zizek, Derrida and other lecturers

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a followup to my post on Zizek here. He draws an interesting comparison between Zizek and Derrida as speakers. I heard Derrida speak twice – once was a setpiece event in Oxford, which was called ‘A Short … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Peter Sloterdijk, Slavoj Zizek, Society and Space | 4 Comments

Heidegger and Derrida

Posted on May 5, 2010 by stuartelden

This very good video has been doing the rounds. I think a lot of people sympathise with the character on the right… I have to admit I recognise myself in the one on the left. Warning: lots of swearing

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger | Leave a comment