Why does a site sometimes show up in my referrer logs when it has no link to my site? This morning, megnut (I just have to interrupt and say that Meg’s subway-tile banner design is tremendously clever use of pixels; every time I see it, I wish I’d thought of that) showed up in my referrrers log, and Meg doesn’t know me from, well, anyone else, nor is there any particular reason for her to. I can’t see a link to my site there. How’s that work?
Once I saw a page from the Guardian in my referrer logs. I knew that had to be a fluke — but how?
While I’m just meandering this morning, I want to join the many readers who’ll miss Jonathon Delacour’s contributions online, to wish well to him and to all whom he loves, hoping that he won’t long be able to resist the temptation to re-ascend to his title as the Duke of Dishmatique, the Tetrarch of Tim-Tams, the Baron of Blogo-fictivity. Keep in touch, Jonathon — we miss you.
And I’m on a wavelength, I think, with Dave (Time’ Shadow) Rogers’s response to postmodernism in light of his reading in Nagarjuna. I’d hesitate to say “they’re getting at the same thing,” partly because I don’t think I’ve read any Nagarjuna in twenty or so years, partly because I’m hyperbolically cautious about using the phrase “the same,” and partly because I want to respect the likelihood that the conceptual streams in Nagarjuna and (for instance) Derrida flow quite differently (especially as I’m confident that the whole phenomenon of postmodernism looks different depending on which books one’ reading). But my hunch is that there’s an important shared insight operating in both settings.
Incidentally, Derrida is very concerned about justice, and believes he can get at some general (probably not “universal”) characteristics of justice from his “postmodern” philosophical way of reasoning. But that’s for another time.
Posted by AKMA at June 14, 2003 09:48 AM | TrackBackI get the same thing with strange links showing up in my referrers. Tom Coates explained to me that in some browsers it can be the visitors previously viewed page which shows up in the referrer list.
Posted by: Euan at June 14, 2003 01:28 PMAKMA,
Be much obliged for Derrida references or precis re: Justice, concept of. I would settle for a workable but inclusive legal fiction. Don't need an essence, haven't since the Scholastics, but we do need a language game with a purpose, or point. What is the point of the game currently played with justice? How could it be transformed both in theory and practice to better accord with, say, our conscience, Christian, Judeo-Christian, Hellenic? Sophistry and Rhetoric and Art may be all we have, but so far I don't see Derrida mobilizing an American middle class constituency; seems ludicrous even to imagine it. Where in your readings, in whatever tradition, do you draw inspiration for sermons on social justice?
"Who is my neighbor and what is he owed?" "What return is owed to the Master for the talents left with us as Stewards?" Who today is amplifying and applying such thoughts, or others like them, in an acccessible theological or philosophical traditon? I am very much out of date. In '81 justice, or doing justice, did not seem to be the theme of Derrida. Its absence was noted, and he may now be responding, but is it a theme central to his work, his haunting compulsion, or is it an epicycle added later to palliate what is an obvious problem with radical skepticism?
I don't see Derrida as a builder, his tool is the crowbar, not the plumb bob. "Plumb, level and true" is not his theme -- except to debunk, delay, differ and defer? Am I wrong?
And could you translate whatever you find there into sermon material? I cannot imagine what that would sound like, except from the pulpit of the Chapel in a very good school.
I really speak subject to correction and counter-example. Could we look forward to another William Sloane Coffin citing Derrida as his inspiration and leading faculty and students on behalf of justice? Hard for me to imagine, and if it did happen, how would it be covered in Time, or Newseek, or USA Today, much less Fox?
Parisian intellectuals have often had influence on French politics, but have any French or Frankfurt School philosophers (after Marcuse in the '60's) had any direct or indirect effect on any American political institution outside of academics?
To build a bridge from Derrida to Main Street is just not possible. At least not in Dallas, Birmingham, Estill, SC, Savannah, GA, or anywhere I have worked with Main Street folks.
Talk radio with Jaques?
I am very open to your help, I need it badly.
Thanks.
Posted by: The Happy Tutor at June 15, 2003 12:59 PMI believe it's a bug in IE that sometimes shows as a referrer the URL of another window being viewed at the same time as yours. it's one way to know what, besides your site, your readers are reading. :)
Posted by: rebecca blood at June 16, 2003 10:14 AMAha! Thanks, Rebecca!
Posted by: AKMA at June 16, 2003 11:29 AM