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I leave this website open as a loving memorial to my best friend and travelling (canine) companion, Virginia (1994-2005) – and as a mark of respect to the original (human) contributors. Its construction at the beginning of the new millennium was a fun-project, which involved a worthwhile but steep learning gradient. However, I have since moved on to other activities, so this particular site is no longer being updated. It remains as a little epoch frozen in a bubble of time – a kind of message in a bottle adrift in the sea of cyberspace. “Café Différance” was originally hosted by the University of Haifa’s network (as its sole resource on phenomenology and postmodernism, formerly: http://cafedifferance.haifa.ac.il). The site was inspired by the philosophy café of the same name (Café Différance). I dedicate this little cyber-testament to Ginny’s enthusiastic singing and the fertile minds of the participants of those meetings and the unique little history that we shared.
Readers are permitted to quote from
any of the material published on this site with the proviso that they add the
following details:
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Formerly: http://cafedifferance.haifa.ac.il
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Last News Entry: Academic
Year 2002-2003
Welcome to the brand new
version of
At present, there are
technical problems that have not yet been resolved regarding the video
presentations in the section: Philosophy, Fantasy
and Film. Hopefully, the links should operate in the not too distant future. Of
course, unless you have something more than the old standard 56k modem, this
piece of news is irrelevant (given the impossibly long download time that is
involved).
Editor’s Note [2005]: The problems were
never resolved on the web due to copyright issues. However, the two videos that
were produced by students (“Debunk” by Inbar Haft and “Bored to Death” by Idit
Shoham) in the section Essays,
Fiction and Videos are accessible by clicking on the
appropriate links. All the hyperlinks to the videos are functional on the DVD
version!
Feedback about this site
would be most welcome. Contributors to this News Page are also invited.
Philosophical Counselling – ISPPI
Call for Presentations:
After a
"dormant" period, ISPPI http://www.geocities.com/centersophon/pc-isppi.html is renewing its
activities to promote philosophical practice and counselling locally. Lectures
are planned for the month of May, which will be held in
If you are a
professional and you would like to present a lecture, please send as soon as
possible your preferences regarding day (Friday or Saturday) and place (Tel
Aviv or Jerusalem), along with your title and a short description of the
lecture. Topics may include recent local events, however keep politics on a low
level and philosophy & practice on a high one. Although we cannot promise
to be able to include all offers, the organizing committee will try to include
as many as possible (Lectures will be in Hebrew and / or in English).
The ISPPI lecture series
will be announced in some major national and local newspapers under the lecture
columns.
Dr Shlomit C. Schuster
Email: counsel@actcom.co.il
Proposed
Boycott of Academic Ties with Israel
There has been a call in
Europe (and a similar attitude in the
http://www.geocities.com/euroisrael2002/
Jacques
Derrida – Theology and Negative Theology
Jacques Derrida will be participating in a forthcoming
conference of The Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in
Editor’s Note [2005]: It is with great respect that we
acknowledge the recent death of the father of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida
(1930-2004). The genius of his texts lives on.
