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Jacques Derrida
philosopher · 6 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Derrida appears primarily as a touchstone for phenomenological critique, particularly in how he interrogates Husserl's assumptions about universal truth and transcendent subjectivity—questions central to understanding how foundational concepts dissolve under scrutiny. His work on the relationship between Being and discourse informs the course's engagement with how mathematical and ontological systems encode their own blind spots, relevant to how AI systems inherit unexamined presuppositions about meaning and agency. He's cited here more as a methodological precedent for deconstructive reading than as a primary theorist of technology or cybernetics itself.
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