Last week’s meeting of the academic reading group proved very enjoyable indeed. We grappled with Derrida’s essay and sought to work through its potential applications in an educational context. A question that really interested me was whether or not it was possible to be a Post-Structuralist AND believe in the possibility of a national education…

Academic Reading Group Meeting 1, November 18th, 2010 ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ Derrida gave this paper at a conference in the United States in 1966. It came at a time when philosophers were extremely interested in the structured, systematic nature of things (politics, society, language, literature, history, etc.).…