A paper on Cornel West’s “The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual” and Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On that I presented on the 25th of October 2006 at Princeton University during the ACLA Annual Meeting: The Human and its Others.
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a typology of iterations
The critique of linguistic presence that Jacques Derrida develops in “Signature Event Context” (1971) has become a common place in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Often forgotten, however – and not in the last place by the French philosopher himself – is the fact that this essay does not just proclaim the ‘death of metaphysics’ but also suggests a path for future philosophical research. “Signature Event Context” initiates a shift from signs and meaning themselves to the acts, procedures, and operations that invoke them.