Sunday, October 16, 2005


9/11: "like an intuition without concept." Jacques Derrida
It seems that it was less complicated to plan 9/11's attacks than interpreting them through Derrida's mind. It would never happen if Osama bin Laden (or whoever did it) was a deconstructuralist thinker:
"We do not in fact know what we are saying or naming in this way: September 11, le 11 septembre, September 11. The brevity of the appellation (September 11, 9/11) stems not only from an economic or rhetorical necessity. The telegram of this metonymy—a name, a number—points out the unqualifiable by recognizing that we do not recognize or even cognize that we do not yet know how to qualify, that we do not know what we are talking about."

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