Jenny Grimaldi and Jacques Derrida

How is it that I never knew that Jenny Grimaldi was in Serenity?

"You will notice that we now say chora and not, as convention has always required, the chora, or again, as we might have done for the sake of caution, the word, the concept, the significance or the value of 'chora.' This is for several reasons, most of which are no doubt already obvious. The definite article presupposes the existence of a thing, the existent chora to which, via a common name, it would be easy to refer."--Jacques Derrida, "Chora" (trans. Ian McCloud)

The definite article presupposes the existence of a thing: Is there some new rule of French grammar of which I am unaware, or is Derrida just making stuff up? Because I know which option I find more likely. Sheesh. (And is the indefinate article okay? Am I still allowed to speak of "a chora" if I wish?)

Why is it that whenever theorists try to turn to grammar in order to make a point, they always end up saying something stupid? Mary Daly's "God the Verb" metaphor really should be "God the Gerund." Being an action or a process doesn't make something not a noun--as evidenced by the fact that both "action" and "process" are themselves nouns. Of course, Daly is only perpetuating R. Buckminster Fuller's lunacy. And a google search for "not a noun" shows this sort of idocy is alive and well, with claims (amongst genuine mistakes like Jon Stewart's claim that terror isn't a noun and actual cases where the noun-ness is in despute) that love, marriage, cheese, science, divorce, journalism, leadership, knowledge, nature, mind, and information are all not nouns, and I've only gone through a small fraction of the hits. I'm glad I knowlegde that now; I'll have to information it when I'm leadershipping (Bush/Cheny OTP?) and especially when I am marriaging.

A noun is a grammatical category. Taking an article is a grammatical characteristic. Neither signals anything important about the essential qualities of the signified on a metaphysical level, just how it is being used in a sentence.

VMars Thoughts

So, Veronica will graduate high school at the end of this season.

The Neptune High Class of '06 will scatter. ( Mild Spoilers up to 2x21 )

Now I knew all this already, but I was caught up in the illusion. I was worried about what would happen to Wallace, to Veronica.

It just occurred to me--what about my viewing experience? Once of things I loved about VMars was the continuity, how students we saw once kept coming back. But past graduation--will we find out what happens to Mac? To Cassidy? To Lizzy and Grace Manning? To Madison Sinclair, the girl everyone loves to hate? To the younger Sinclair daughter whose name escapes me at the moment? Et cetera ad infinidum ad nauseum?

I mean, we'll have vacations and all, but it just won't be the same. And without the rich anc complicated interactions between the cast, it just won't be the same show. I mean, there'll always be fanfic, but still. . . .

All this is assuming that there is a third season at all, of course.

Is it bad that I'm more broken up about Veronica Mars graduating and leaving her school than I am about My own graduation. I'll miss Colgate, sure.

But not like I'll miss Mac/Cassidy. That was special.

*is sad*