RIP Jacques Derrida

[pynchonoid]

> Did his death produce the causal cancer?

[...]You will want cause and effect. All right. [...]
(GR, 663)

[...] he'll be left only with Cause and Effect, and
the rest of his sterile armamentarium [...] (GR, 752)

[...] what appears to be a reversal of cause-
and-effect. I'm not as ready as you to junk
cause-and-effect, but if it does need modifying-so be
it." [...] (GR, 90)

"[...] a child, perhaps unaware -perhaps-that in his
play he wrecks the elegant rooms of history ,
threatens the idea of cause and effect itself. What if
Mexico's whole generation have turned out like this?
[...]" (GR, 56)

Constructing (or, determining, if you will) a cause
after the effect is a rather common activity, and not
always simple and straightforward - ask the armies of
lawyers, detectives, crime victims, doctors, patients,
heirs, and Tube addicts if it's trivial, clear-cut,
easy, obvious...


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