Anti-Expertism

fallible, contexual, and limited knowledge

Category: Philosophy

“There is nothing outside of the text”

The late Derrida penned those words knowing full well that they were just that, penned words.
He must have seen those as an affront to his very ideas, the philosopher’s critique on meta-statements being a meta-statement itself. A critique, so named, because it was long thought (among philosophers) that philosophy was the queen of thought.  She’d [...]

It’s Meta

As it turns out, sleep deprivation is not condusive to writing and, couple that the neglect of putting black on white, you will find yourself in the position of writing about writing. Normally I would just forgo jotting something down and watch a film or play some sort of video game (I have developed a [...]

Translation, Theory, and Criticism

An interpreter is a decipherer and communicator of meanings. He is a translator between languages, between cultures and between performative conventions. He is, in essence, an executant, one who ‘acts out’ the material before him so as to give it intelligible life. Hence the third major sense of ‘interpretation’. An actor interprets Agamemnon or Ophelia. [...]