On Jacques Derrida

Brilliant self-authorship by the very smart and provocatively self-named “The Hooded Negro”

His rejection of Deconstruction seems more gut-felt and intuitive than reasoned but, then again, what would be the point of engagement (if not discipline) when the end result would be understanding that that the big D misread Saussure? Would somebody help me understand: What’s driving this generation’s disdain for the academic discourses that democratized American universities from the 1980s onward?

On Jacques Derrida