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derr342··on Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf]
Thank you for writing this. I wish I could upvote you more than once.

This is a very accurate way of describing him.

He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that actually tried to understand him in good faith.

These hacks (in the pejorative sense) also had a penchant for using math sounding language because in their sociopathic minds it lended credibility and gravitas to their speech.

Nothing but contempt for charlatans like him. Some excerpts to give a taste.

>The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, is not a center. It is the very concept of variability-it is, finally, the concept of the game. In other words, it is not the concept of something—of a center starting from which an observer could master the field—but the very concept of the game which, after all, I was trying to elaborate.

> This differential topology [topique différantielle] adjourns, guardian after guardian, within the polarity of high and low, far and near (fort/da), now and later. The same topology without its own place, the same atopology [atopique], the same madness defers the law as the nothing that forbids itself and the neuter that annuls oppositions.

The man is glorified poorly trained Markov chain.

derr342··on Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf]
> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good.

This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one.

Let me try to make it more accurate.

For Knuth to be like Derrida his magnum opus would have to have been generated by just typing

cat /dev/random

and later claiming that MIX was somewhat defined in there as well as programs written in it. Then he would become famous Paris Hilton style and get a bunch of sycophants that defend his void verbiage no matter what (some because their entire carreers depended on it, others just because they are useful idiots).

derr342··on Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf]
> Derrida is one of the most important continental philosophers of the 20th century.

I never stated otherwise. What we both wrote is in no way contradictory.

derr342··on Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf]
Why is this here? What's the relevance?

For those who don't know, Derrida was a French postmodern intellectual charlatan with absolutely no redeeming qualities.

A good example of what one should strive not to become.