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jimmy_eat_book's review against another edition
4.0
Profound, confusing, headache inducing and very deep. Prepare yourself for this one.
weepywillows's review
4.0
Derrida poses many good ideas about the archive. I had to read this for a class about archiving a "queer" past and it was, of course, seminal to the class discussion. However, as is expected for Derrida, it was such a challenge to get through, willing myself to sit down and process all of the information was incredibly difficult; at some points I was convinced I wasn't reading in English. The content becomes even more impressive when one think about the fact that this was a lecture.
Derrida was undoubtedly an amazing thinker of our time and I'm convinced that I absolutely must read more of his work, but maybe this time with a glass of wine.
Derrida was undoubtedly an amazing thinker of our time and I'm convinced that I absolutely must read more of his work, but maybe this time with a glass of wine.
olivalejandra's review
4.0
I grudgingly ended up liking this, despite all the mentions of Freud's circumcision. Ended up getting into the ghosts in the archive and obsession so...i guess it was v much my jam.
besidekick's review
1.0
Oh goodness guys, I probably really understood only one sentence out of every hundred in this book. Not only does Derrida expect to you already be well-versed in Freud, but he also expects you to be intimately familiar with his previous work. I am an expert in neither.
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