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his view merely the pretext for a rather facile satire on the academic
world. On a visit to Stanford, Derrida stated that he was very dis-
appointed by the use to which deconstruction was put in the fi lm.
Raising his voice to defend the word, as if it were his child, he said:
‘I felt it was an exploitation of the term. [.. .] At the end a graduate
student uses the word deconstruction as a stereotype, to destroy it,
to undermine it, to vulgarize it.’^32 Such, surely, is the price we pay
for fame.