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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