Dystopian Capitalism and the Specter of Utopia: A Critique of the New York Public Library Exhibit
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 65, Heft 3, S. 376-382
ISSN: 0036-8237
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In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 65, Heft 3, S. 376-382
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Postmodern Debates, S. 79-92
In: New left review: NLR, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 173
ISSN: 0028-6060
In: Ideologie, S. 77-109
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 237, S. 150
ISSN: 0028-6060
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 234, S. 44-61
ISSN: 0028-6060
Contends that Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (1993) is the political project of a "man of the Left." It is suggested that Derrida's Algerian background influences both his association with the antihumanism of Marxism & the institutional nature of deconstruction. Although he claims deconstruction is of no interest except as a radicalization, Derrida must know it has not functioned in any way like radicalized Marxism, but rather as an inferior kind of textual politics at a time when academic leftists needed a new form of dissent. The two sides of deconstruction -- reformist & ultraleftist -- are examined, & notions of deconstructed Marxism are compared to Marxist revisionism. It is suggested that Marxism has become more appealing to Derrida because of its marginality & the unattractiveness of political alternatives, maintaining that he is not concerned with an effective socialism, but angered by liberal-capitalist complacency. Derrida's avoidance of the real historical/theoretical manifestations of Marxism are examined, along with the critical, negative nature of his politics, & the absence of ontology or method within his "New International.". J. Lindroth