A journal of my philosophical readings
A close reading of the first chapter of Derrida's Spectres of Marx, tracing his engagement with Shakespeare's Hamlet, the visor effect, and the logic of spectrality that grounds his concept of hauntology.
An analysis of Derrida's decomposition of spirit into three constitutive elements: mourning, language/voice/name, and work, exploring how these structure inheritance and the spectral condition of living in disjointed time.
This note tracks Derrida's argument in Spectres of Marx about money, ghosts, and the performative logic of oaths and conjuration. I wrote it as a working map of the book's claims about inheritance and the political afterlife of Marxism.
This note continues Spectres of Marx at the point where Derrida names the three apparatuses of dominant discourse. It follows his critique of techno-mediatic power, the Fukuyama thesis, and the idea of democracy to come.
This article traces Derrida’s critique of the “end of history” thesis and the way he reads Fukuyama and Kojève as ideological attempts to close the future. It follows his distinction between Marxist systems and the spirit of Marxist critique, and it summarises the ten crises he lists under global capitalism and the proposal of a New International.