Monthly Archives: November 2005

The Battle Continues

The future of the idea that is the Internet is in jeop­ardy accord­ing to Wired mag­a­zine writer Lawrence Lessig [arti­cle]. Lessig wor­ries that in order to set­tle the debate over Google Print, the search engine giant will com­pro­mise and cease to index the con­tents of mil­lions of out of print and pub­lic domain books. The [...]
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Trying to make sense of Derrida

Children fear bogey­men, Derrida writes. It is only through the rep­e­ti­tion of some kind of mag­i­cal incan­ta­tion that we can rid chil­dren of this fear. The “exor­cism” or “anti­dote” they seek is dialec­tics (121). He calls this prac­tice “anam­nesic dialec­tics,” in other words the un-forgetting dialec­tics, the re-membering dialectics. There are anti­dotes and prob­lems and [...]
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