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“‘All culture is originally colonial’: Derrida, Algeria, and the Latin Empire”

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Date
Friday, November 4, 2022
Time
12-1:15 p.m.
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Adam Stern, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will discuss a reading of Jacques Derrida’s writing on Algeria, Jewishness, and colonialism. Beginning with a controversial passage from his 1996 book, Monolingualism of the Other—“all culture is originally colonial”—the paper calls for a reinterpretation of Derrida’s intervention into the legacy of French Algeria as a reflection of his broader critique of Latin Christian hegemony.

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Free
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