In a footnote to his early essay “Force and Signification” from 1963, Jacques Derrida considered the contemporary vogue for the notion of “structure” in the following terms. “In order to assess the deep necessity that underlies the undeniable phenomenon of fashion, one must proceed initially by the ‘negative path,’—the choice of the word is initially a—structural, of course—ensemble of exclusio...

In his massive multi-volume work Technics and Time Bernard Stiegler explores a history of technics as epiphylogenesis—the preservation in technical objects of epigenetic experience. Epiphylogenesis for Stiegler marks a break with genetic evolution (which cannot preserve the lessons of experience), a break which also constitutes the “invention” of the human. As Stiegler puts it in the general in...

The subtitle of Robert Rowland Smith’s DeathDrive announces a ghostly Freudian haunting of literature and art. This visitation by Freud, coming without full authoritative presence, drives Smith to posit a compelling and creative – albeit strange and spectral – reading of aesthetics and its relations to death and the deathly. But Freud is not the only ghostly presence in this book, absent presen...

This paper considers the relevance of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to geography’s engagements with both mainstream moral philosophy and poststructuralist theory. This relevance lies in the way in which their work unsettles the ascription of normative value to relations of proximity and distance. Distance is usually understood to be a medium of moral harm or indifference. In ...

O presente artigo objetiva discutir o sentido de justiça na obra do filósofo francoargelino Jacques Derrida, entrelaçando-o aos conceitos direito e hospitalidade. A partir revisão bibliográfica uma breve análise caso que envolve a violação sistemática dos direitos humanos refugiados nas fronteiras da Europa, concluímos derridiana, promessa irrealizável, experiência impossível, exige aperfeiçoam...

Although these factors raised in the writings of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault are theoretically legitimate and have posed tremendous problems for the social sciences and their constitution as a science based on the notion of a stable structure constituted by stable rational subjects with agency. These problems have not adequately been addressed by Marxist social theorists...

This study explores woman’s agency in Alameddine’s fiction, An Unnecessary Woman (2013) concerning the normative state of a communal structure that controls women’s behaviors and wishes set by suppression. The current uses deconstruction theory French post-structuralists Jacques Derrida Hélène Cixous, taken from feminist perspective, which undermines gender dichotomies interrupts “the unquestio...

This paper examines two hypotheses concerning the relationship between language and violence. (1) Language does not merely represent violence, but enacts its own type of violence. (2) The use of violent language participates in the demarcation of political and subjective viability in the public sphere. I argue that these hypotheses are true to the extent that discourse circulates. I elaborate o...