Tower of Sleep

It is totally false to suggest that deconstruction is a suspension of reference. Deconstruction is always deeply concerned with the ‘other’ of language. I never cease to be surprised by critics who see my work as a declaration that there is nothing beyond language, that we are imprisoned in language; it is, in fact, saying the exact opposite. The critique of logocentrism is above all the search for the ‘other’ and the ‘other of language.’ Every week I receive critical commentaries and studies on deconstruction which operate on the assumption that what they call ‘post-structuralism’ amounts to saying that there is nothing beyond language, that we are submerged in words—and other stupidities of that sort.

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Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction and the Other

Reblogged because I feel like I might need to refer to it at some point.

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