Thank you for writing this. I wish I could upvote you more than once.
This is a very accurate way of describing him.
He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that actually tried to understand him in good faith.
These hacks (in the pejorative sense) also had a penchant for using math sounding language because in their sociopathic minds it lended credibility and gravitas to their speech.
Nothing but contempt for charlatans like him. Some excerpts to give a taste.
>The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, is not a center. It is the very concept of variability-it is, finally, the concept of the game. In other words, it is not the concept of something—of a center starting from which an observer could master the field—but the very concept of the game which, after all, I was trying to elaborate.
> This differential topology [topique différantielle] adjourns, guardian after guardian, within the polarity of high and low, far and near (fort/da), now and later. The same topology without its own place, the same atopology [atopique], the same madness defers the law as the nothing that forbids itself and the neuter that annuls oppositions.
> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good.
This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one.
Let me try to make it more accurate.
For Knuth to be like Derrida his magnum opus would have to have been generated by just typing
cat /dev/random
and later claiming that MIX was somewhat defined in there as well as programs written in it. Then he would become famous Paris Hilton style and get a bunch of sycophants that defend his void verbiage no matter what (some because their entire carreers depended on it, others just because they are useful idiots).
This is a very accurate way of describing him.
He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that actually tried to understand him in good faith.
These hacks (in the pejorative sense) also had a penchant for using math sounding language because in their sociopathic minds it lended credibility and gravitas to their speech.
Nothing but contempt for charlatans like him. Some excerpts to give a taste.
>The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, is not a center. It is the very concept of variability-it is, finally, the concept of the game. In other words, it is not the concept of something—of a center starting from which an observer could master the field—but the very concept of the game which, after all, I was trying to elaborate.
> This differential topology [topique différantielle] adjourns, guardian after guardian, within the polarity of high and low, far and near (fort/da), now and later. The same topology without its own place, the same atopology [atopique], the same madness defers the law as the nothing that forbids itself and the neuter that annuls oppositions.
The man is glorified poorly trained Markov chain.