POMO rants (was dfw ... nobel specks)

[Joe Varo]

On Fri, 23 May 1997, Tom Stanton wrote:

> What's needed is a "Derrida for Dummies" so that those of us not in
> the mainstream of academic criticism might get a grasp.

Tom,

Actually, the "Derrida for Beginners" is pretty much just that.  It gives
you what is probably as lucid a description as is possible of this tangled
topic.  I think that you can understand it even without the supposedly
requisite philosophical background.

> A few years ago in rec.arts.books I made the very foolish request that
> someone encapsulate the premise of decon & got flamed for weeks
> thereafter on the basis that unless I was willing to devote my life to
> the study, I would never understand a summary ... 

Yeah...the rec.arts.books and alt.postmodern discussions on this topic do
get pretty nasty and tiresome and, uh..."elitist".

Joe