Extract from Ghost Dance (1983) featuring Jacques Derrida | Do You Believe in Ghosts?

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Published 2007-08-22

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. It is an adventure film strongly influenced by the work of Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard but with a unique intellectual and artistic discourse of its own and it is this that tempts the ghosts to appear, for Ghost Dance is permeated with all kinds of phantasmal presence. The film focuses on philosopher Jacques Derrida who considers ghosts to be the memory of something which has never been present. This theory is explored in the film. This film has also been compared with the following works: Celine and Julie Go Boating, Thelma & Louise, O Lucky Man, Sans Soleil, Week End, and Viva Maria.

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@caseysutherland 13 years ago

@dawgie102 That is our supposition, however.
@dawgie102 14 years ago

She asks a question and we suppose a popular meaning of ghosts to her q,. He redefines ghosts, and then talks about that instead. This is called "evading the issue". Socrates would call D. a sophist. The unsuspecting will end up at least confused. shame on Derrida!