Timothy Stanley

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On #FoucaultandDerrida

“How Derrida and Foucault Became the Most Misunderstood Philosophers of Our Time,” - prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/foucault-derrida-post-truth-culture-wars-marxism. Writing on both lately, I can say one of the more fruitful points of comparison can be achieved with reference to their respective interpretation of Plato’s notion of hypomnesis, e.g. between Derrida’s “Plato’s Pharmacy,” and Foucault’s “Writing the Self.” The joke in this case is that both drew attention to the materiality of writing and in ways relevant to thinking about subjectivity on the internet today.