Deconstruction after Derrida

Stiegler Reading Derrida: The Prosthesis of Deconstruction in Technics

In his massive multi-volume work Technics and Time Bernard Stiegler explores a history of technics as epiphylogenesis—the preservation in technical objects of epigenetic experience. Epiphylogenesis for Stiegler marks a break with genetic evolution (which cannot preserve the lessons of experience), a break which also constitutes the “invention” of the human. As Stiegler puts it in the general in...

Deconstruction in a nutshell.

What is deconstruction? Nothing, of course. (Derrida, 1991, p. 275) . . . deconstruction doesn’t consist in a set of theorems, axioms, tools, rules, techniques, methods . . . there is no deconstruction, deconstruction has no specific object . . . (Derrida, 1996, p. 218) . . . deconstruction is neither an analysis nor a critique. . . . I would say the same about method. Deconstruction is not a m...

Derrida, Butler and an Education in Otherness

Guerra ’ s interpolation using Derrida - Ruelle cascades

New results about Poisson-Dirichlet point processes and Derrida-Ruelle cascades allow us to express Guerra’s interpolation entirely in the language of Derrida-Ruelle cascades and to streamline Guerra’s computations. Moreover, our approach clarifies the nature of the error terms along the interpolation.

Spherical Deconstruction

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a decon-struction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by Maldacena and Nunez (MN) in [1]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N = 1 * theory with gauge group U (N) in ...