Going to read Jacques Derrida today and try not to go insane. (I hate post-structuralism, but I’m going to force myself to understand it more)

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Masochist!

Only reading things you agree with is a form of unconsciousness, in my opinion!

Agreed.

💯. Exploring ideas one doesn't agree with makes one a better thinker and also helps to build empathy. Gotta say I respect your well thought-out posts a great deal.

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Deconstruction and the possibility of justice is my favorite work of his.

Here is a great primer if any interest:

https://arcade.stanford.edu/rofl/waiting-justice-benjamin-and-derrida-sovereignty-and-immanence

Read the introduction to Terry Eagleton’s Literary Theory, and if you’re hooked finish it. Was perhaps the most informative book of my understanding of #borderlessness beyond just the physical