Paper Machine (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive. Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university, animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of the “wholly other.” Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected trajectory of thought. Cover Title Page Copyright CONTENTS Translator's Note Paper Machine 1. Machines and the "Undocumented Person" 2. The Book to Come 3. The Word Processor 4. "But . . . No, but . . . Never . . . , and Yet . . . ,as to the Media": Intellectuals. Attempt at Definition by Themselves. Survey. 5. Paper or Me, You Know . . . (New Speculations on a Luxury of the Poor) 6. The Principle of Hospitality 7. "Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious" 8. As If It Were Possible, "Within Such Limits" 9. My Sunday "Humanities" 10. For Jose Rainha: What I Believe and Believe I Know 11. "What Does It Mean to Be a French Philosopher Today? " 12. Not Utopia, the Im-possible 13. "Others Are Secret Because They Are Other" 14. Fichus: Frankfurt Address Notes