Jacques Derrida on American Attitude |January 28, 2013| Jacques
Derrida speaks about the attitude of American journalists and
university students. How Western Europe Developed a Full
Scientific Method The lone survivor of traditional Western
European ‘scientific’ culture is science. It has survived
because it is now the handmaid of technology, without which
contemporary civilization would collapse utterly. Anyone who
doubts this should try to get a research grant for genuinely
“pure” research. William Kentridge and The Benefits of Doubt He
had started the series from inside Plato’s cave, so when William
Kentridge launched his sixth and final Charles Eliot Norton
Lecture with a retelling of the story of Perseus, he gave
familiar things back to his audience — the myth itself, and
art’s gesture of circling toward origin at closure. Where Rivers
Meet What is a map, and which maps are memory’s or imagination’s
to invoke, and then how? What lies in the incantatory power of
names, or in the pull North or South, West