Derrida Jacques. Paper Machine

Transl. by Rachel Bowlby. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. — 203 p. — (Cultural Memory in the Present) — ISBN-10 0804746206; ISBN-13 978-0804746205This 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.Translator's NoteMachines and the "Undocumented Person
The Book to Come
The Word Processor
"But... No, but... Never... and Yet... as to the Media": Intellectuals. Attempt at Definition by Themselves. Survey
Paper or Me, You Know... (New Speculations on a Luxury of the Poor)
The Principle of Hospitality
"Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious"
As If It Were Possible, "Within Such Limits"
My Sunday "Humanities"
For Jose Rainha: What I Believe and Believe I Know
"What Does It Mean to Be a French Philosopher Today?"
Not Utopia, the Im-possible
"Others Are Secret Because They Are Other"
Fichus: Frankfurt Address