Re: [microsound] Derrida Article in N.Y.T.

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

andrew, sishi eater et list,


I should have withheld my snippy comment. My apologies.

What I was meaning to convey was that such "controversies" are often
incessantly continued by those who "haven't read the article and honestly I
do not know much about Derrida."

Not to pick on sishi eater (whom I quoted there), but only to suggest that
perhaps one SHOULD go read a few articles, etc., before proclaiming yet
another controversy?

There is some high irony here. 'Tis all.

As for the petition, yes I do know about it, and have signed it. I also know
of the vicious, spiteful obituaries -- I've been cataloguing them.

Nixon was the most deserving man of a cutting obituary -- and HST saw to
that. But Derrida was something entirely other, and has done little to
deserve the pitiful, malicious vengeance that the press has displayed save
for thinking beyond the demeaning confines of contemporary reportage and
public analysis.

Such press gives all journalism the reputation (or lack thereof) it has
today.

There's a catalogue of links here:

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tobiasv/E302526524/

best,

    tobias

> 
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 12:18 PM, tobias c. van Veen wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps if you had read the article, then you would know that the page
>> you
>> linked isn't much controversy either. tV
> 
> no that page very directly states the controversy:
> 
> " Jacques Derrida died in Paris on Friday, October 8, 2004. The first
> occasion for this site was an obituary published by the New York Times
> on October 10, 2004, deemed by many of Jacques' colleagues, friends,
> and supporters to be unjust, disrespectful, and unbalanced. A letter
> written by Samuel Weber and Kenneth Reinhard to the New York Times
> quickly gathered so many signatures that we realized a web site was
> needed to record the names of those who wished to be heard."
> 
> and 1200 people have signed.
> 
> Peace,
> 912 Euclid Ave.
> Birmingham, AL, 35213
> 407-927-7607
> aim: liminal18
> 



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