Jacques Le Narcissiste: Rhonda Lieberman on Derrida. (Film).(Interview)

From: Artforum International | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Lieberman, Rhonda | Copyright information

RHONDA LIEBERMAN ON DERRIDA

WE CULTURE-ISTAS KNOW Derrida is the Madonna of thought. He's antiphallogocentric and a total diva. Undeniably powerful, he's either revered or deplored as the author of cultural relativism, rampant textuality, and undecidability. The notoriously close reader is still dashing at seventy-two, with a dark but surprisingly soft gaze, eagle-ish features, and a mildly poufy white coif: a silver fox. Spinning his web (yes, folks, that's three animal...

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