Book 20 - "Ghostly Demarcations" Michael Sprinker (Editor)

"Ghostly Demarcations" Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Frederic Jameson, Antonio Negri, Michael Sprinker (Editor) (Verso Books)



It is quite fundamental for the reader to understand that the main focus of Specters of Marx is spectrality and its attendant ideological implications, rather than Marx. One cannot read Derrida politically without misrepresenting his ideas. It is quite ironic that a number of Derrida's critics, particularly coming from the Marxist field, fall back on the dilapidated model of dialectics, and hence binary oppositions. Marx's ontology is forever tainted by the hauntological presence of the other. Derrida suggests that we examine the processes rather than the end products. This collection of essays, ranging from ridiculous to the sublime, is a response to the ideas set forward in Specters. It is very useful in approaching the text from a number of different angles.

Book 20 - "Ghostly Demarcations" Michael Sprinker (Editor)

"Ghostly Demarcations" Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Frederic Jameson, Antonio Negri, Michael Sprinker (Editor) (Verso Books)



It is quite fundamental for the reader to understand that the main focus of Specters of Marx is spectrality and its attendant ideological implications, rather than Marx. One cannot read Derrida politically without misrepresenting his ideas. It is quite ironic that a number of Derrida's critics, particularly coming from the Marxist field, fall back on the dilapidated model of dialectics, and hence binary oppositions. Marx's ontology is forever tainted by the hauntological presence of the other. Derrida suggests that we examine the processes rather than the end products. This collection of essays, ranging from ridiculous to the sublime, is a response to the ideas set forward in Specters. It is very useful in approaching the text from a number of different angles.

Mo' Books For The Soul

Another shopping trip this morning first stopping in Ashford and then in Canterbury where I had a Pret filter coffee and a sandwich. It was quite humid and at times it felt thundery. Luckily it remained dry.

In Ashford i visited a charity shop and picked up some books and a CD, followed by a couple more books in the HMV sale in Canterbury.

The books are -

Ron Berry - Collected Short Stories (Gomer Press)
David Mateur - Courts Poets And Patrons, The Renaissance in Europe (Yale)
Eric Partridge - Usage And Abusage (Penguin)
Tom Cunliffe - Good Vibrations, Coast To Coast By Harley (Summersdale)
Simon Reynolds - Bring The Noise (Faber & Faber)




The CD is a classic soul album from 1995 - D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar).

This evening I watched the last interview with Iain Banks , A Culture Show special on BBC 2.