“Intellectual Terrorist”

September 25, 2012 | 1

If last year’s The Marriage Plot was too brief a taste of semiotics for you, here’s an interesting essay on Jacques Derrida, “the Samson to tear down the temple of structuralism,” and his seminal 1966 American presentation on “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences.”

lives in New York. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, BOMB, The Nation, The Paris Review Daily, The Yale Review, and more.