Sunday, 28 May 2006

How Do I Know Derrida Is Evil? or, What Really Happened to Thenosha

Because back in '87 he decided that the best way to reform academia was to lead the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.  Sure he fought the good fight once or twice.  But did he do so out of conviction?  Pffft.  He did so because he couldn't sorbonne America until he conquered Antartica and established a homeland for Theorists.  After the Soamenals destroyed Thenosha his mental state deteriorated considerably.  He would deconstruct his alarm clocks with the same indifferent aplomb with which he deconstructed his lovers.  Eventually he awoke in a room with no meaning at the white heart center of a sun not unlike our own.  Content with the divine deconstruction of hydrogen swirling around him, Jacqneto let his eyelids fall to better await the day of his fiery rebirth.

Proof?  What do you mean "proof"?  Of course I have proof.

Derrida magneto

See?  So I'm sure y'all can do better than me in those bubbles or the origin story, if only because (to my knowledge) none of you have had to decide between pain-with-every-movement or the-intellection-of-the-average-comic-book-reader.  (Lest any of y'all complain that I misunderestimate the intelligence of those who read comic books, I'm slagging the average reader of comic books.  The fact that you read this blog proves you ain't average.  I guarantee that you can't understand a damn word I write if you're not in at least the 51st percentile.) 

If you're only familiar with the older Derrida, I urge you to check out some photos from his dashing youth before you mock me for my Jacqneto. 

May 28, 2006 10:07:54 PM | Academia, Books, Dissertation, Evolution, Literary Theory, Literature, Philosophy

8 Comments

Miriam

Hey, Derrida was still pretty dashing when he was wandering about UCI in the late 80s and early 90s, smoking his pipe.

Posted by: Miriam | Monday, 29 May 2006 at 09:40 AM

Brendan

'Slagging', 'slagging'! - I'm astonished because I've never seen the word used outside Ireland - and I'm no slouch when it comes to, y'know, reading stuff.

'Props', my American friend, many 'props' for you indeed - and double points for a 100% appropriate use.

Posted by: Brendan | Tuesday, 30 May 2006 at 10:29 AM

Alex Leibowitz

I think it's telling that you replaced the definite with the indefinite article.

Posted by: Alex Leibowitz | Saturday, 09 December 2006 at 09:39 AM

Scott Eric Kaufman

Telling like "can't fit the definite in text-bubble" or telling like "you got Derrida wrong, I say, wrong"?

Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Saturday, 09 December 2006 at 12:41 PM

Alex Leibowitz

Eh. Did you ever get to meet him?

Posted by: Alex Leibowitz | Sunday, 10 December 2006 at 09:36 AM

Scott Eric Kaufman

Took one seminar with him -- for which I wrote a terrible paper on Gravity's Rainbow -- and sat in on two of his others. (Also attended all the public lectures, which were non-mandatory but compulsory, if you know what I mean.)

Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Sunday, 10 December 2006 at 01:50 PM

MichaelWolf

Derrida is evil? yes, he ever noticed evil/demon is spirit itself! if you think he evokes some spirit,he is evil and simutaneously immune to this, better read some more from his writings and that will help you not ask such a questions so childish...

Posted by: MichaelWolf | Saturday, 29 November 2008 at 10:01 AM

Rich Puchalsky

Egad: Michaelwolf does not appear, to cursory inspection, to be a spambot. This is the Platonically perfect long-after blog comment you've got here, Scott. Better even than the ones on your Hello Kitty shrine.

Posted by: Rich Puchalsky | Saturday, 29 November 2008 at 10:19 AM

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