Chris's post (oct 12) was a great reading of Derrida and where D&G are
coming from...
Bringing up a sentence from Hume, because I believe this marked a cross-roads
that met in Derrida anyway - Hume said, since I can ask you where you got
your belief or your fact and you give me a reason and that reason is based
on a conclusion that is based on a fact, that we could go on like this into
'infinitum' - so Hume states, either one picks a fact or one realizes that
everything is without foundation. The irony of 'history' is that Kant picked
a fact and the fact has manifested itself in the work of Derrida as
foundationaless anyhow. What Hume didn't ask was how do I even know what
to look at, and it is this prioritized sensibility - that sees things
as representative that would seem to have plagued the Metaphysics of Presence -
the point I wanted to bring up is that when everything has been deconstructed
we are left with...nothing, nihilism. Because the Metaphysicians of Presence
'see' signs, objects, things as representative, when the last representation
was proven to be a negativity, one realises the nihilism is a projection
of this mistaken belief in the fullness of meaning...but its time to step
out of this slave morality and realize it isn't that everything is nothing
but everything is real.
Dave
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