Kitabkhana

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Monday, August 25, 2003

 

"If we follow Derrida, we face the prospect of an architecture of death for the new millennium."

Thank you, Nikos A Salingaros. The Babu remembers attending a Derrida lecture on deconstructionism years ago. He taped the lecture, transcribed it, and read it with increasing bewilderment. In desperation, he trotted off to a professor of philosophy who also had a degree in mathematics and asked her to decipher "this barrage of apparent nonsense". Two days later, the prof returned the transcribed lecture, with just a brief note appended. "This is not a barrage of apparent nonsense. It is a barrage of unmitigated nonsense."

 

Hurree Babu

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