Today’s Links (13/10/04)

• Libération : Mort du philosophe Jacques Derrida
  L’un des philosophe français les plus connus à l’étranger, notamment aux Etats-Unis, Jacques Derrida est mort dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à l’âge de 74 ans, semble-t-il des suites d’un cancer du pancréas.
• IHT: French philosopher Derrida dies at 74
• Independent: Derrida Obituary
  Derrida, radical doyen of deconstructionist thought, dies at 74
• Guardian Unlimited - Philosopher Jacques Derrida Dies at 74
  World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president’s office said Saturday. He was 74.
• Le Monde.fr : Le philosophe Jacques Derrida est mort
  Le philosophe français le plus commenté et le plus traduit au monde ces dernières années, notamment aux Etats-Unis, Jacques Derrida, mort dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à l’âge de 74 ans, était célèbre pour son concept de "déconstruction".
• The New York Times > Obituaries > Jacques Derrida, Abstruse Theorist, Dies at 74
  Mr. Derrida was known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction, and that the author’s intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself.

Rest in peace, Jacques - I read you when I was too young to understand and, in doing so, allowed you to poison my mind, in the best way.

• Foucault: Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
  "The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed."
• Two Textual Instruments: Regime Change and News Reader
  Textual instruments make text playable in a new way. At first, as one encounters their workings, they are toys for exploring language — more flexible than link-node hypertext, more responsive than batch-mode natural language generators. With growing exp
• A Watchful Wristwatch
  RFID tag-based system that makes your watch beep if you forget your keys, or anything else you’ve tagged. I so need this.
• Is Free Software Inevitable?

This is the last in the uninterrupted flow of link-only posts, I swear. The near-silence is down to the fact that I’m in the middle of searching for and buying a place to live, which is proving to be a time-consuming, slightly confusing and not entirely stress-free process - can anyone give me a good reason why buying property should be any different to buying anything else, aside from the scary amounts of cash involved? It would’ve been great to just whip out my Switch card yesterday, leaving with the keys in my hand, but no, many layers of convoluted legal cack await, even if I can beat the scrum of fellow potential buyers.

Whatever - Sub Sessions is on tonight, so I will be DJing my cares away. Do join us at the Sub Club.

Posted at 4pm on 13/10/04 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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