It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.] - Jacques Derrida
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]
- Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. - Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is th… - Jacques Derrida
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is th…
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. - Jacques Derrida
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything - Jacques Derrida
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. - Jacques Derrida
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
There is nothing outside the text - Jacques Derrida
There is nothing outside the text
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. - Jacques Derrida
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. - Jacques Derrida
If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
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