Derrida positions himself as the savior of the text - a messianic figure, to be sure. Like every good messiah, he saves the text, and, in order for the text to achieve salvation, according to the text, the text must be overturned. The text overturns itself: he the mere vehicle of the text's glorious self-overcoming.
Against Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug
Since 2007, there has been a tiny, marginal movement on the internet, or several overlapping movements, started by a person named Curtis Yarvin, better known by his assumed name, "Mencius Moldbug." (I'll use that name; it's less obscure.) Spreading out from Silicon Valley, where it first became trendy, the movement(s) have been known by various names. Moldbug originally called his political philosophy "formalism" - at that time, he was advocating for the government being run in the style of a corporation - especially a Silicon Valley startup - with a powerful CEO. But that never caught on, and he abandoned it in favor of "neo-cameralism." But this turned out not to capture anyone's imagination either, and so other names appeared: the Dark Enlightenment, neo-monarchism, and most famous of all, the "NeoReactionary movement" - NRx for short. Are all these terms equivalent, or are there subtle distinctions between them? And what ex...
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