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Introduction: Derrida and the future of …

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Tom Cohen
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Albany
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Thus we no longer know whether what was always represented as … “supplement,” “sign,” “writing,” or “trace,” “is” not … “older” than presence and the system of truth, older than “history.” Or again, whether it is “older” than sense and the senses: older than the primordial dator intuition, … older than seeing, hearing, and touching … not more “ancient” than what is “primordial.”

Speech and Phenomena

the technical structure of the archiving archive also determines … its relationship to the future. The archivization produces as much as it records the event.

Archive Fever

Of course, if one defines language in such a way that it is reserved for what we call man, what is there to say? But if one re-inscribes language in a network of possibilities that do not merely encompass it but mark it irreducibly from the inside, everything changes. I am thinking of the mark in general, of the trace, of iterability, of différance. These possibilities or necessities, without which there would be no language, are themselves not only human … I am speaking here of very “concrete” and very “current” problems: the ethics and the politics of the living.

“Eating Well”

WAGER

One could speak here of many things: the event horizon, the prosthetic earth, the absolute translation of legacies, the gambling of alternative futures, memory grids that give place to or transform institutions from within, the hyper-politics of the allomorphic archive, experimental chronographics – all part of the Derridean wager. Perhaps.

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Jacques Derrida and the Humanities
A Critical Reader
, pp. 1 - 23
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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