Re: [microsound] [ot] Derrida

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> I admit to not having followed Derrida for some years, but I had come
>>>>> to the conclusion that deconstruction was just a fancy introverted
>>> way
>>>>> of saying anything goes and therefore required no further attention.
>>> 
>>>> That's a poor & weak conclusion.

//

> Maybe I should have been more precise. I was trying to get Tobias to
> elaborate on his terse rebuttal, but also inviting others to do so. I
> understand the genealogy of deconstruction in the Derridean sense
> (although I don't agree that deconstruction is synonymous with
> post-structuralism), but your post doesn't quite answer the question of
> why deconstruction is not just nihilism as the OP basically implies.

[snipp.ed]

To be honest, I think others in many other forums can elaborate much better
than I can & I am not sure this is the place for it. I've incorporated
deconstructive thought--or thought as deconstruction, as flow--into all of
my work and constantly make references to it here in the processing of
thought on this very list. I'd rather not debate the apparent nihilism of
the theory, for by the very force of the unending processes of thought as
affirmation and process in and of its haunted selves, selves as ghostly
echoes from that other realm anyone encounters--or fails to touch--when
delving through the archives of music, memories that carry with us like
tunes or refrains, sudden munchings on madeleines, pop song fantasies, or
techno concussions, the cryptic turns of language, theory, and art into
sound and music, like the numerical beauty of max/msp's algorithmic
generators, or the cold kiss of a lost lover's eyebeams, the linearity yet
heightened expectancy of a debate on these subjects would be all the more
trite were it to actually arrive as it is and is expected to be.

-- It's very fashionable, as always, to throw down the diss.
- It's very easy to do.

tV



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