@lifeasweshowit Derrida is, like Barthes, a thinker I enjoy reading as if his works were more literature than theory, though it also is.
— Andrew Ty (@EnterDuration) October 22, 2011
was my reply to
I love the way Derrida always mourns in his work. Very few thinkers think with their hearts as well as their minds.
— Masha Tupitsyn (@lifeasweshowit) October 21, 2011
Masha tweeted that right after she multi-tweeted the following bit from Spectres Of Marx:
“The time is out of joint. The world is going badly. It is worn but its wear no longer counts. Old age or youth-one no longer counts in that
— Masha Tupitsyn (@lifeasweshowit) October 21, 2011
way. The world has more than one age. We lack the measure of the measure. We no longer realize the wear, we no longer take account
— Masha Tupitsyn (@lifeasweshowit) October 21, 2011
of it as of a single age in the progress of history. Neither maturation, nor crisis, nor even agony. Something else. What is happening is
— Masha Tupitsyn (@lifeasweshowit) October 21, 2011
happening to age itself, it strikes a blow at the teleological order of history. What is coming, in which the untimely appears, is happening
— Masha Tupitsyn (@lifeasweshowit) October 21, 2011
to time but it does not happen in time. Contretemps. The time is out of joint." Derrida, Spectres of Marx
— Masha Tupitsyn (@lifeasweshowit) October 21, 2011