{"quotes":[{"text":"I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.","author":"Jacques Derrida","tags":["communication","deconstruction","influence","understanding","writing"],"id":2898,"author_id":"Jacques+Derrida"},{"text":"Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called “normal” functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way?","author":"Jacques Derrida","tags":["deconstruction","philosophy"],"id":63717,"author_id":"Jacques+Derrida"},{"text":"To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that there was any loss.","author":"Robin DiAngelo","tags":["deconstruction","racial-division","racism","segregation","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":101898,"author_id":"Robin+DiAngelo"},{"text":"Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize; whose continuity and underlying laws could now be pointed out; indeed, whose overall concept or meaning could at last, with all the insistence required on such occasions, be squarely set forth. I will not feign, according to the code, either premeditation or improvisation. These texts are assembled otherwise; it is not my intention here to present them.","author":"Jacques Derrida","tags":["deconstruction","philosophy"],"id":140707,"author_id":"Jacques+Derrida"},{"text":"Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name—or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can “what has always been conceived and signified under that name” be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a “book,” or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a “philosophical discourse”?","author":"Jacques Derrida","tags":["deconstruction","philosophy"],"id":171913,"author_id":"Jacques+Derrida"},{"text":"Humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. We learn from nothing that we do. We create religions, heritage, race, traditions, then they all in turn become our stumbling blocks from becoming one. We suffer from the creations of our own inability to interpret history. The only thing we have succeded on is seperation.We are not that different from one another as we think we are. But we are too corrupted to break our deconstruction.","author":"Jeffrey Fischer","tags":["deconstruction","nihilism","society"],"id":199549,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Fischer"},{"text":"It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying that the choice between these two forms of deconstruction cannot be simple and unique. A new writing must weave and interlace these two motifs of deconstruction. Which amounts to saying that one must speak several languages and produce several texts at once. I would like to point out especially that the style of the first deconstruction is mostly that of the Heideggerian questions, and the other is mostly the one which dominates France today. I am purposely speaking in terms of a dominant style: because there are also breaks and changes of terrain in texts of the Heideggerian type; because the “change of terrain” is far from upsetting the entire French landscape to which I am referring; because what we need, perhaps, as Nietzsche said, is a change of “style”; and if there is style, Nietzsche reminded us, it must be plural.","author":"Jacques Derrida","tags":["deconstruction","philosophy"],"id":216975,"author_id":"Jacques+Derrida"},{"text":"To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.","author":"Perry Nodelman","tags":["childhood","deconstruction","innocence"],"id":220461,"author_id":"Perry+Nodelman"},{"text":"Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests of American society. Derrida is clearly out to do more than develop new techniques of reading: deconstruction is for him an ultimately political practice, an attempt to dismantle the logic by which a particular system of thought, and behind that a whole system of political structures and social institutions, maintains its force. He is not seeking, absurdly, to deny the existence of relatively determinate truths, meanings, identities, intentions, historical continuities; he is seeking rather to see such things as the effects of a wider and deeper history of language, of the unconscious, of social institutions and practices.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["academia","deconstruction","derrida","language","meaning","relativism","truth"],"id":232315,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"},{"text":"Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which a whole hierarchy of meanings may be constructed. It is not that he believes that we can merely rid ourselves of the urge to forge such first principles, for such an impulse is deeply embedded in our history, and cannot — at least as yet — be eradicated or ignored. Derrida would see his own work as inescapably ‘contaminated’ by such metaphysical thought, much as he strives to give it the slip. But if you examine such first principles closely, you can see that they may always be ‘deconstructed’: they can be shown to be products of a particular system of meaning, rather than what props it up from the outside.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["binary-oppositions","deconstruction","derrida","metaphysics"],"id":244479,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}