Amedeo Modigliani, The Son of the Concierge, 1918

“Philosophy, strictly speaking, has been resistant to Derrida. This is a sign or a symptom that should be analyzed. Such rejection can be seen as a symptom of a disease that has been contaminating all manner of western academic discourse. There is a resistance [sic] to what is new, to what is unknown; the bureaucracy of thought that threatens all kinds of institutions and confines the capacity of thought in our time. This is what Derrida calls closure.”

—	Rachel Nigro, “Derrida’s Last Conference”