Derrida's Pragmatism: The Political and Pedagogical Implications of Derrida's 'University to Come' in a Teletechnological World

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作者
Bock, Joel [1 ]
机构
[1] Depaul Univ, Dept Philosophy, Chicago, IL 60604 USA
关键词
Derrida; teletechnology; university; work; education; pragmatism;
D O I
10.3366/drt.2022.0288
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B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
This paper focuses on the intersections between Jacques Derrida's thinking of teletechnology, virtualisation, mondialisation and the role that education and the 'university to come' can play in coping with the changing landscapes of our increasingly digitised world. This analysis also addresses what I call the pragmatist critique of Derrida, which accuses deconstruction of being incapable of offering any prescriptive norms for how we can actually achieve systemic political change and what those changes should look like beyond a vague or unrealistic utopian hope for an undefinable, unanticipatable 'event' to come. I argue, in contrast, that Derrida's thinking on teletechnology provides one of many examples of the practical implications of deconstruction and can help explain Derrida's account of how the politico-economic outside functions and conditions the university. Moreover, I explain Derrida's argument that the 'how' of interrupting or breaking the vicious cycle of technoeconomic power structures cannot be solved by a mere list of preprogramed objectives and thus must necessarily be left open to uncertainty, further determination and the possibility of the unknown. At the same time, however, this resistance to preprogramed objectives does not entail an outright rejection of political resistance or education about the power structures at work within various domains of life.
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页数:19
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