9 thoughts on “Tuesday: Hili dialogue”

  1. Poor Hili!
    Postmodernist essays should only be read for the giggles. Never try to take them seriously.

  3. A closer watch should be kept on Hili to ensure her mind isn’t polluted by postmodernism!

    1. Oh, she’s much too smart a cat to fall for that sort of thing.

      It may well inspire some extra bouts of silliness, but that’s a good thing. Cats are supposed to bounce off walls and twist their heads every which way while hunched down with their butts up in the air. It’s part of their essential feline nature.

      b&

  4. Nope, she seems to be pretty perky in that picture! Just post-noms looking at where she’s standing.

  5. Deconstruction reveals the metaphysics of presence in a text by identifying its conceptual binary oppositions and demonstrating the speciousness of their hierarchy by denying the possibility of comprehending the “superior” element of the hierarchy in the absence of its “inferior” counterpart. Denying an absolute and intrinsic meaning to either element of the hierarchy différance is revealed (rather than proposed as an alternative[14]) according to Derrida. Différance is a Derridaean neologism that is the antithesis of logocentrism, it is a perpetual series of interactions between presence and absence—where a concept is constituted, comprehended and identified in terms of what it is not and self-sufficient meaning is never arrived at[15][16]—and thus a relinquishment of the notions of intrinsic and stable meaning, absolute truth, unmediated access to “reality” and consequently of conceptual hierarchy…

    Incoherent? What could be incoherent about that?

      1. I hope there’s a prize for that!

        (Embarrassed to admit that I checked to see if your article was published April 1st…)

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