From today's work on "What Can We Do When Everything Is On Fire?":
“Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or pithy maxim — the very idea is to disturb this tranquility. Indeed, that is a good rule of thumb in deconstruction..." (1/4)
“Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or pithy maxim — the very idea is to disturb this tranquility. Indeed, that is a good rule of thumb in deconstruction..." (1/4)
"...That is what deconstruction is all about, it’s very meaning and mission, if it has any. One might even say that cracking nutshells is what deconstruction is. In a nutshell." -John Caputo, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: Conversations with Jacques Derrida, p. 32 (2/4)
For Derrida, a text can be endlessly deconstructed. And though Derrida does help alert us to the possibility of hidden motives that may lurk in a text (often having to do with bids for power), do we really want to spend our whole life endlessly cracking nutshells? (3/4)
As John Caputo shrewdly points out, even deconstruction can be deconstructed. And besides, you can’t deconstruct forever and have anything left. In the end we need to have a reason to get out of bed in the morning. (4/4)
