I read Derrida here in Toronto in the Philosophy department, where I did a Specialist in Philosophy. A Specialist is like a Major with no Minor, cause you were too Kant and Hegel crazy to take anything else.

i’ve done some derrida reading, my methodology is to kind of let my eyes drift down the page.

do you like raymond williams? or zizek? did you take that undergraduate course at u of t? in what department?

mercedes: I like all of the studies of power, Discipline and Punish, Birth of the Clinic. I have a copy of On the Order of Things, one of his mainly theoretical works, but I have not read it yet.

As for Derrida, I have read a lot by him, I took a fourth-year seminar just on Derrida in undergrad. The book is great, but I bet it would be hard if I wasn’t already experienced with his writing. But, I think it is the book that explains everything in the later works that I didn’t really understand. If Derrida has a “theory,” which he would argue against, it is there.

i scrolled down and read a little further. what are your favorite works by foucault?

i own “on grammatology” but have never been disciplined enough to slog through it. how did it treat you?

Very nice blog indeed! Now, in response to the whole Google situation, since when did Google start censoring Chinese content or materials and if indeed the Chinese government is doing the censoring, what exactly are they censoring? I just want to know…

And yes, I see why you would be perplexed about the whole situation. Why read banned books when some of the content provided by Google is banned or “censored”. Hmmm….