Chopin’s Index Card & Derrida’s Postcard
An opera singer texted me: ‘Look at this scrap of paper.’ Javier C. Hernández, music reporter for the New York Times, unearths something nearly unfathomable. ‘It was much smaller than I had imagined – a pockmarked scrap about the size of an index card.’ A cellphone. An image. A photograph taken of this scrap of […]
Morris, M. (2024). Chopin’s Index Card & Derrida’s Postcard. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/chopins-index-card-derridas-postcard/
Marla Morris
Marla is Professor of Curriculum, Foundations & Reading, in the College of Education, Statesboro Campus, Georgia Southern University, GA, USA. She studied philosophy at Tulane University, religious studies at Loyola University, New Orleans and Education at Louisiana State University. She has PhDs from Louisiana State University (Education) and the European Graduate School (Philosophy). Her main interests are postmodern philosophy, psychoanalysis, curriculum studies and systematic theology. She has published papers on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Michel Serres, Simone de Beauvoir, drawing extensively on the work of Gaston Bachelard and Donna Haraway. Marla has also worked in Holocaust studies, trauma studies, medical humanities and chaplaincy.