Musings on Derrida and his Structure, Sign and Play

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Read Derrida for the first time some where in 2002.. Decoded his Structure, Sign and Play on the eve of the Semester exams to my 14 friends over the land line phone (thats one of the sweetest memories made)

Now have been lecturing on Derrida, for more than one and half decade ..

And this semester, Derrida and his SSP is prescribed for UG students for whom even Structuralism, Formalism, Modernism is greek and Latin..🤭

And I was down to earth today (and yesterday)... Simplest of the simple examples, lecturing (repeating a sentence several times with enough intonation / stresses)..

And that didn't go in vain... To me it's a sort of revelation and catharsis.. 

Revelation of the day - Can 'Maya' of the Indian philosophy be called as the antithesis of 'presence' of western Metaphysics .

Maya is a philosophical concept , but every Indian do get an idea of what Maya is and uses it even in the daily conversations and his/ her  approach to life..

To us what is right in front of us is an illusion at times... Your relationships, physical possessions and life itself can be an illusion and you accept it whole heartedly..

And here Derrida is worried about the western Metaphysics of presence and its insistence of presence and fixed meaning...

Man, welcome to our world of Maya... Let's explore new meanings and brave new worlds...

And some of the lines which i recited to my students today, while deliberating on the fixed meaning, decentering, difference etc etc..
 
അനന്തം അജ്ഞാതം അവര്‍ണ്ണനീയം
ഈ ഭൂലോകഗോളം തിരിയുന്നമാർഗം 
അതിങ്കെലങ്ങാണ്ടൊരിടത്തിരുന്നു
നോക്കുന്ന മർത്യൻ കഥയെന്തു കണ്ടു !

സ്വർണ്ണ പാത്രം കൊണ്ടു മൂടിയിരിക്കുന്ന ഭൂമിയിലെ ശാശ്വത സത്യം

(Use the Google translator pls to get the meaning to these lines pls)

And here am using Nalappat Narayana Menon, Vayalar and Yezhuthachan to teach Deconstruction...🤭🤭

And the story doesn't end here - Deconstruction is പൊളിച്ച് അടുക്കൽ for me ... 🤪

Dedicating all these eccentric thoughts to my students 😀😉 

And the journey continues..

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