L'Université sans profession (the University without profession): The Privilege of the Conflict of the Faculties

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’ in Who's Afraid of Philosophy? Right to Philosophy 1, trans. Jan Plug et al. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), pp.5–69 (p.17). 2. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.8. 3. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.7, p.21 [Derrida's italics]. 4. This is an accolade awarded by the Sunday Times newspaper which is part of the NewsCorp. company. The category in which University College Cork excels in winning this award is the research category. UCC's gross income from peer‐reviewed research grew to 55 million in 2004, or just over 91,000 per full‐time academic. The university has been awarded a grant of 80 million from Science Foundation Ireland. UCC has posted the two stamps awarded from The Sunday Times (NewsCorp.) on its homepage. The British university equivalent for 2005, Durham University, has not posted these stamps on its website. In keeping Derrida's reference to ‘multinational military‐industrial complexes’ in mind, it is important to note that the U.S. satellite television wing of NewsCorp., DirecTV, launched a new satellite ‘for the delivery of more new content and services for its more than 14.4 million customers’ on May 21, 2005. The DirecTV website reads: ‘The Space Systems/Loral‐built satellite, a powerful Ku/Ka‐band hybrid spacecraft, will reinforce the existing fleet of eight DIRECTV satellites’. The satellite was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Russian‐built Proton launch vehicle. The launch facility is a ‘joint venture of Lockheed Martin of the United States and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre of Russia.’ Lockheed Martin is the leading producer of military arms in the United States. Incidentally, NewsCorp contributed $679,421.34 to the Republication Party's election cycle in 2002 <http://www.opensecrets.org>. 5. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.59. 6. John Guillory, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993), p.ix. 7. Incidentally it was the convener of this conference, Dr. Graham Allen, who was responsible for ordering diacritics for the Boole Library, University College Cork. Unfortunately Derrida's essay appeared in an issue that predated Dr. Allen's time at UCC. 8. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.26. 9. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.29. 10. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.29. 11. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, pp.29–30. 12. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.49. 13. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.51. 14. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos: ou le conflit des facultés’ in Du droit à la philosophie (Paris: Galilée, 1990), pp.397–438 (p.430) [all translations from this essay are mine]. 15. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.60. 16. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.61. 17. Pierre Bourdieu and Jean‐Claude Passeron, Reproduction: In Education, Society, and Culture, trans. Richard Nice (London: Sage, 1977), p.110. 18. Pierre Bourdieu, Reproduction, p.21. 19. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.61. 20. Jacques Derrida also speaks of the university as a potential system of reproduction, but only in relation to ‘certain Eastern countries’ where he writes that the ‘University is totally confined to an activity of information reproduction’. Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p. 413. 21. Pierre Bourdieu, Reproduction, p.177. 22. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.428. 23. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.56. 24. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.59. 25. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.414. 26. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.411. 27. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.418. 28. José Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University, trans. Howard Lee Nostrand (London: Kegan Paul, 1946), p.40. 29. José Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University, p.41. 30. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.29. 31. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils’, trans. Catherine Porter and Edward P. Morris, in diacritics, 13:3 (1983), pp.3–20 (p.11). 32. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.12. 33. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.13. 34. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.14. 35. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.13. 36. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.13. 37. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.13. 38. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.14. 39. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.13. 40. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.56. 41. ‘The future of graduate management education in the context of the Bologna Accord’, <http://www.gmacbolognaproject.com> 42. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.59. 43. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.55. 44. Jacques Derrida consistently unsettles an understanding of solitary mental life that presumes a notion of presence he does not accept. This paper argues that it is this deconstructive understanding of solitary mental life that leads to the sense of ‘erasure’ or ‘dissociation’ that he foregrounds in relation to the ‘teaching body’: ‘[P]resent to the self in the life of a present that has not yet gone forth from itself into the world, space, or nature. All these “goings‐forth” effectively exile this life of self‐presence in indications. We know now that indication, which thus far includes practically the whole surface of language, is the process of death at work in signs. As soon as the other appears, indicative language – another name for the relation with death – can no longer be effaced’. Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomenon: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs, trans. and introd. David B. Allison, and preface by Newton Garver (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), p.40. 45. For reasons that will be obvious I will continue in the text to refer to this essay as the ‘Pupils’ essay. 46. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.434. 47. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.20. 48. His university addresses respect the discourses and traditions of his host universities; an earlier address to the faculty of Columbia University on the centenary of the foundation of its Graduate School paid homage to the welcome this institution offered to ‘those intellectuals and professors who emigrated from nazi Germany.’ Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.404. 49. Jacques Derrida, ‘Hostipitality’ in Acts of Religion, ed. Gil Anidjar (London: Routledge, 2002), pp.358–420, p.362. 50. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.3. 51. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.5. 52. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.5. 53. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1979), p.204. 54. This may be due to the fact that Derrida's paper appeared in English three years before its French translation, a translation that possesses a number of differences from the original text that cannot only be due to the artistic licence of the translator. One should also note that ‘pupille’ does not translate ‘pupil’ (or student) completely; the two nouns are ‘false friends’ (see Clare Connors in this issue). 55. Jacques Derrida, ‘White Mythology’, New Literary History 6 (1974), pp.5–74 (p.64). 56. Jacques Derrida, ‘White Mythology’, p.18. 57. Jacques Derrida, ‘Mochlos’, p.404. 58. Jacques Derrida, ‘White Mythology’, p.39. 59. The grand, conventionally sublime photograph of a gorge and a bridge at Cornell which graces the front cover of this issue of diacritics clearly speaks to the metaphorics and thematics of Derrida's essay in a quite different, more literalistic, manner. 60. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.5. 61. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.10. 62. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.17. 63. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, pp.18–19. 64. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.19. 65. Jacques Derrida, L'Université sans condition (Paris: Galilée, 2001), p.17 [all translations from this essay are mine]. 66. Jacques Derrida, L'Université sans condition, p.50. 67. Jacques Derrida, L'Université sans condition, p.35. 68. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2nd rev. edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), p.16. 69. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.29. 70. Jacques Derrida, L'Université sans condition, p.50. 71. Jacques Derrida, L'Université sans condition, p.45. 72. See ‘The future of graduate management education in the context of the Bologna Accord’, <http://www.gmacbolognaproject.com> p.20. 73. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.14. 74. Jacques Derrida, Acts of Religion, p.60. 75. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, pp.18–19. 76. Jacques Derrida, ‘Where a Teaching Body Begins and How It Ends’ in Who's Afraid of Philosophy? The Right to Philosophy, pp. 67–98 (p.90). 77. Jacques Derrida, ‘Where a Teaching Body Begins and How It Ends’, p.91. 78. Jacques Derrida, ‘Where a Teaching Body Begins and How It Ends’, p.97. 79. Liam Downey, Creating Ireland's Innovation Society: The Next Strategic Step, <http://www.hea.ie/index.cfm/page/publications/category/143/section/details/id/406> p.16. 80. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason’, p.13. 81. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege’, p.17. 82. ‘The future of graduate management education in the context of the Bologna’, <http://www.gmacbolognaproject.com> p.18.