Derrida talks about the reasons he did not want to be photographed or have his image published.
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Jacques Derrida on Photography
Derrida talks about the reasons he did not want to be photographed or have his image published.
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23 responses to “Jacques Derrida on Photography”
when he says 'public! available!' at 3:12
"lol I rly hate my face :::'(((( XD"
My girlfriend used to say this sort of shit when we were 16
he did not like getting photgraphed because of comic expectation of society to see writer sitting next to books or writing, and agrees to get videographed in front of a shelf of book… HORSE SHIT
What did he mean by the death effect of photography, I thought photographs were meant to immortalise ! and he was going to say something about the superstition involved around photography and that woman stopped him…damn you woman !
Sartre would laugh at this so hard.
Does anynone know where the itw comes from ? A dvd ? thanks for help
Yann
Whats the name of this interview?
His physical image was the least of his problems.
Derrida was nobody's fool. He might have gotten too caught up with the substance-less theories, though he changed thought on a grand scale. We have the books, though we lack the readers. Perchance it is time to do research and get lost in a sea of words. Do not let the books gather dust. Study them and share what you have learned. Read until your eyes hurt, then read some more. What else is there to do in life besides balance the game evenly between reading and writing, reading and writing, not too much of either, just the right amount. Let them take your picture. The people want to see what a handsome gray-haired philosopher looks like.
L'horreur narcissique https://timlouette.com/2016/03/17/of-narcissistic-horror-jacques-derrida/
Merci pour cette belle réflexion
Attention! Subtitling error
The year referred by Derrida in dialogue was 1979, not 1969
He desribes himself a Narcicistic in the sense, mainly, that he does not want the world to see his aging face (though some of this sort of thing dates back to his youth.) However, Iprefer his deeper reason, that photgraphs of writers tend to lend themselves to celebrity and to personality cults. Nevertheless, he is right. It can't be helped.
(His desire to not be the center of a personality cult is, however, the opposite of Narcicistic.)
Autistic? I'd have to know more about him to make my amature diagnosis. Certainly Neitzsche had all the symptoms of aspergers.
3:13 what a great American accent
derrida, heidegger and all the great philosophers are quite autistic, like einstein, newton, emily dickinson, milton, dante and leonardo de vinci in their different fields
it has to be that way to bypass the cretinous human theories of minds which are only interested in successful breeding, which from history you cannot say philosophers were :o)
autism is the neurobiological implementation of deconstruction :o)
no, I am saying autism/autistic spectrum is the primary philosophical condition and derrida's aversion to being photographed is neurobiological and reflective of a structurally different brain very far from "normative reality"
if you accept that far from being pejorative, that in fact i applaud "disorder" you might understand what i say abit better, in fact its your prejudice against structurally different neurobiology that is limiting you :o(
richiewhitehead/itchie pikehead replies (ed. he deleted it)
There's normativity in your descriptive subterfuge
my reply
you've got to be fucking joking ! :o()
Kiitos,
it's an autistic spectrum neurological condition to be anxious about one's photographed image !
I agree I think he's quite far from being narcissistic, from much of the interviews I've read with him he seemed very generous with the people who were interviewing him even when they asked him questions that were not particularly well formulated.
when did Derrida claim he was narcissistic…my experience of him as a person run counter to the rude, juvenile and ignorant comments I have read here.
in the spirit of deconstruction, i like to think that derrida is neither an absolute idiot, as many claim, nor an absolute genius, as many claim. He has a lot of interesting, valuable things to say and also a lot of stupid things to say.