Quote of the Day

"This appurtenance is essential and irreducible; one cannot retain the convenience of the "scientific truth" of the Stoic and later medieval opposition between signans and signatum without also bringing with it all its metaphysicotheological roots." - Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
This is from some 50 pages I read on Sunday for my introductory theory course. It would depress me, but it's an improvement over the Heidegger we had to read last week: "As ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the lighting of Being, into 'care.' But Da sein itself occurs essentially as 'thrown.' It unfolds essentially in the throw of Being as the fateful sending." - Letter on Humanism
If it wasn't clear before this class, it's completely clear now: I'm here for the literature, not so much the theory....