Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Four Deconstructionists


~Wittgenstein~

language/game
glamen/guage
magle/men
mangle



~Quine~

analytic/synthetic
anasyn/thetic
anasyth/etic
anæsthetic



~Derrida~

spoken/written
spowrike/ten
wrok/spen
wroken



~Rorty~

mind/brain
minb/drain
brain/dim
brand



3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM

    If there's a smarter, cooler brain in bloggoland than yours, I'm yet to find it.

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  2. Philip ThriftJanuary 7, 2009 at 1:35 AM

    Well, thanks!

    I've toyed, fleetingly, with a Four Deconstructionists, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — as the former four would be presented on FOX News Channel, for example — parallel. First I have to go back and reread Revelation. :-)

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  3. Philip ThriftJanuary 7, 2009 at 1:50 AM

    BTW, "wroken" in the poem is clickable. Apparently comes from:

    But me were lever* than all this town," quoth he [*rather]
    I this despite awroken* for to be. [*revenged]
    — The Miller's Tale (Chaucer)

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