What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

Tags: truth writing censorship language speech



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The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for which they are to be used and to which one tries by trial and error to adapt them, not hesitating to change them whenever it appears necessary, or to try several of them at once, even if their form and their origin are heterogenous—and so forth. There is therefore a critique of language in the form of bricolage, and it has even been said that bricolage is critical language itself…If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur.

Jacques Derrida

Tags: future writing postmodernism 1966 grammatology



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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Jacques Derrida

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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction

Jacques Derrida


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Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.

Jacques Derrida

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I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

Jacques Derrida


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The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

Jacques Derrida

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Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Jacques Derrida

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إن الحلم يأتي ليبدد فكرة شفافية الوعي

Jacques Derrida


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مع كل استعارة من أي نوع، لا بد من وجود شمس في مكان ما، ومتى تسطع الشمس، تكن الاستعارة قد بدأت معها

Jacques Derrida


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