I cannot be sure-- it's like a freakin' Derridean word game over there. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
Derridean non-concept of différance than traditional philosophical materialisms. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
Perhaps the most important thing to say about Derrida is that he was not a Derridean. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
I'll have to dredge up the posts on my blog where I've dealt with this Derridean claim. From Wordnik.com. [Il n'y a pas de hors-texte . . .] Reference
In Derridean thought, the first element in a pair of terms is usually the privileged one. From Wordnik.com. [Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?] Reference
Derridean idiom if deconstruction is to stand revealed as a thinking of institutionalization. 6. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
Are you part of the Derridean school where contradicting yourself and seeking obscurity is intentional?. From Wordnik.com. [ID in their own words: Dembski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
What Derridean thought utterly lacks is any sense of suchness-- a quality that can be "found" by taking the nondualistic, nonessentialistic route. From Wordnik.com. [Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?] Reference
If the term "deconstruction" is a Derridean transformation of "destruktion", can deconstruction consist of anything other than this transformation?. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
For a self-confessed rhetorician, it was opportune to be able to discover what looked like a new trope and irresistible to imitate the Derridean style. From Wordnik.com. [Site One: A Romantic Education.] Reference
In Benjaminian — and Derridean and de Manian — history there is no pure "once upon a time," even if a text also always demands to be read in its singularity. From Wordnik.com. [History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin] Reference
At one point Kirn literally loses his speech, his aphasia a perfect symbol for the disorientation inculcated by academic gobbledygook like Derridean deconstructionism. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"] Reference
A marvelous example of Derridean différance, the page break defers the satisfaction of knowledge and assigns meaning to the delay that must ensue while the page is being turned. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
This shift from propositional content to verbal texture might remind one of the characteristic procedures of Derridean reading, which typically treats the philosophical text as a specifically written thing. From Wordnik.com. [Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'] Reference
But in this case, at least, Deleuzean reading must differ from Derridean, for it focuses not on the vicissitudes of certain core terms but on the non-signifying features of verbal statement, such as rhythm and sound. From Wordnik.com. [Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'] Reference
Even when he made so bold as to suggest that Kafka may after all have possessed a "self" capable of "reference" (but to what?), he arrived at that conclusion through the same Derridean practice of ahistorical dithering over images. From Wordnik.com. ['Kafka Up Close': An Exchange] Reference
The island'' of the title is a pastoral dystopia, but a dystopia with a difference-or, rather, a dystopia with a differance in, of course, the Derridean sense, for this is a dystopia characterized by the free play of signifier and signified. From Wordnik.com. [Morton on Imprisonment and Escape on L'Isle de Gilligan] Reference
Met Myles for lunch at Café Joe's and caught up about life, love, and other people who were at the same college as us; met Jim tonight and spoke about philosophy analytic, anglo-saxon type versus continental and Derridean type and computer science. From Wordnik.com. [Catching up day] Reference
The practical effect of Derridean thinking, unfortunately, isn't a move beyond dualism: Derrida himself was content to remain at play in the dynamic field of signifiers, a sort of semiotic ping-pong in which meaning is vibration between the antipodes we create. From Wordnik.com. [Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?] Reference
Yet the imaginary phonotext — pulling the symbolic field part of the way back toward the real, and thereby obtruding the fact of sound back into the circulations of sema — eludes Dolar's post-Derridean model, with its arrest of all embodied vocality by an abstracting semiosis. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
For the moment let it suffice to remark that the Derridean enterprise, like the Heideggerian one, has a positive as well as a negative component in its movement, operating "at the limit of philosophical discourse" Derrida's emphasis, perhaps, but not on the premise of its "death". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
When the study of literature took "the linguistic turn," as we all remember, such are the vagaries of academic and institutional trends that it was Derridean deconstruction and psychoanalysis, not linguistics, that became the interdisciplinary benchmarks for poetics and narrative theory alike. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
One imagines those extra words enable her to get across the post-modern Derridean influences she mentions so often. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning News] Reference
Note I have used the Derridean term 'iteration' to describe the relation between different consistencies of organisation. From Wordnik.com. [event mechanics] Reference
Nothing could be less Derridean than thinking that you can ignore the form in which something is written, and just render it as a series of determinate propositions. From Wordnik.com. [k-punk] Reference
The Derridean thread metaphor seems apt for an artist who so self-consciously plays with the tissue of the canvas and the warp and weft of timeworn linens, trawling spare threads across paint like errant lines of drawing. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
Poetry News: Interesting essay here on the poetry of Dan Beachy-Quick: Beachy-Quick is adept at the classic Derridean move: identifying the simultaneity of irreconcilable contraries that, upon analysis, depend upon and collapse into one another. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
Acker's prose in particular delights in parasitically inhabiting the uber-texts of patriarchal culture and deconstructing, in a Derridean sense, the singularities and lacunae in culturally familiar texts, as well as received assumptions surrounding the false normativity of psychological narration. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Derridean Deconstruction and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. wrote. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | Programmes | Newsnight | World Edition] Reference
I could get all Derridean and niggle about the author’s use of “end,” but that would only muddy the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Dude wrote my article on hipsters.* | clusterflock] Reference
Deconstruction of a non-existent ruling model of science is about as noxious as I’d expect of a Derridean cloud. From Wordnik.com. [ID in their own words: Dembski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
We can’t prove it in a Derridean analysis, naturally, but we do know that we have knowledge outside of words and symbols. From Wordnik.com. [ID in their own words: Dembski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I was finishing my art history Master’s around the time Derridean deconstruction and “post-Saidian theory and jargon” began to ooze into and infect scholarly writing. From Wordnik.com. [Discarding the Post-Colonial Other: A Vindication of Plain Speaking] Reference
Or is is Derridean broccoli?. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage or Broccoli: it's all the same story] Reference
This is precisely what Derridean deconstruction and Gadamerian hermeneutics has taught us about texts! ". From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
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