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Paper Machine

by Jacques Derrida

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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive. Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university, animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of the "wholly other." Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected trajectory of thought.… (more)
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Fascism begins when you insult an animal, including the animal in man.

This book proved abusive. Even at the zenith of my spirit, this would've been daunting territory. As it was, Paper Machine rendered a contused crawl. My spirit was sapped, discouraged. I thought of a retreat. The hills offer protection in this season of uncertainty. Televised fidelity is indeed a refuge for scoundrels. Paper Machine is not a centralized force of interrogation or, god forbid, explication. It is a collection. An internment of suspicious pieces. Ones with suspect papers. It is this range of puns, association and daring word play which makes Paper Machine both effective and maddening.

In principle, a philosopher should be without a passport, even undocumented; he should never be asked for his visa. He should not represent a nationality, or even a national language.

The Departures Lounge of the Mind is a busy place. When there we should care less about the complimentary drinks and practice instead a more earnest empathy. ( )
  jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
Too cool for school, Derrida being quite playful with Being after print.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. Fans of McLuhan and Ong / new media theory or postmodernism should give this one a read. ( )
  marccsantos | Mar 12, 2007 |
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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive. Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university, animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of the "wholly other." Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected trajectory of thought.

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