Salingaros falls screaming into the chasm between the careful political writings of Jacques Derrida and what the Encarta Dictionary (come on!) define as deconstruction; a distance which is only slightly greater than that between the critical practice of deconstruction and the adolescent posturings of deconstructive architects.

Derrida is not responsible for the pretentiousness of Tschumi and his ilk. The thought of Derrida, when read in respectfully critical ways, is the cure, not the virus, especially when it comes to understanding the politics of P2P interactions (as opposed to the homogenizing holism of the later Chris Alexander).