A 1997 conversation between the modern-jazz musician Ornette Coleman by the philosopher Jacques Derrida; the substantial connections between their ideas, which come through in surprising ways. They were, as Derrida notes, born in the same year, 1930.
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OC: When you take music, the composers who were inventors in western, European culture are maybe a half-dozen. As for technology, the inventors I have most heard talk about it are Indians from Calcutta and Bombay. There are many Indian and Chinese scientists. Their inventions are like inversions of the ideas of European or American inventors, but the word “inventor” has taken on a sense of racial domination that’s more important than invention—which is sad, because it’s the equivalent of a sort of propaganda.

The Other's Language: Ornette Coleman & Jacques Derrida in Conversation, originally published (1997)

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