Death of philosopher Jacques Derrida The father of deconstructionism has himself deconstructed. Jacques Derrida died in a Paris hospital on Friday at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer. His voluminus output may have stopped by we need not stop the creation of new texts. See the Postmodernism Generator written by Andrew C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. On a similar note not to be missed is Alan Sokal's "Social Text Affair".