Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 08:24:38 -0700
Sender: pen-l@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>
Subject: RE: Derrida (fwd)
 
On Tue, May 3  1994, Pete Bratsis wrote:
 
> One can even note a kernal of deconstruction in Marx (i.e. the famous ch. 1
> of the first volume of Capital).
 
To oversimplify a bit (hell, the medium demands it), Marx was trying to
find a unity, a structure, an essence behind the fragmented appearance of
the market - to find compulsion behind an illusory freedom. The decons/pomos
are always trying to pick apart illusory unities, dethrone transcendental
narratives, attack the notion of essence. The decon notion of freeplay is
not unlike conventional ideas of the market, is it?
 
Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>