... deconstruction life death différance animal s animality passivity logos logos sovereignty sovereign knowledge trans movements in metaphor rhythm supplement supplementarity DNA deoxyribonucleic acid machine RNA Plato Platonism Beyond the Pleasure Principle différance Freud performative writing...

...Chapter Three examines Agamben's theory of potentiality in relation to Derrida's central concepts of arche-writing and différance. After the more polemical engagements in the works discussed in the two previous chapters of the book, Agamben's rhetorical strategy with regard...

... consciousness Derrida J différance molecular biology thermodynamics deconstruction gene in vitro life experimental systems RNA science unconcern Zamecnick P Crick F Hoagland M thing Watson J genetic code self complexity Rheinberger H J time Jacob F nature Life sciences experimental...

...This chapter argues that there is a clear isomorphism between Jacques Derrida's formulations of différance and Jacques Lacan's formulations of the Real. Lacan's conception of the traumatic Real appears to be intrinsic to his radical reinvention of psychoanalysis and remains...

...A Lacanian account of sexual difference exemplifies the logic of différance. This chapter addresses a trouble that both Lacan and Derrida persistently grapple with: that of understanding difference in terms of binary oppositions. Some thinkers argue that this binary...

.... To express the matter in another terminological register: the notion of the trace is endorsed by both kabbalists and Derrida, but with the critical difference that, for the former, the originary trace can be traced back ontologically to the infinite, the luminous darkness, exposed through its occlusion...

... the conditioned/constituted nature of the subject. Both Husserl and Levinas, then, prove inadequate to the task that phenomenology introduces, even as both provide clues to how to properly respond to that task. Derrida introduces his notion of différance as an initial attempt to explain...

...Derrida’s account of différance emerges as his response to the phenomenological problem of genesis. Différance, like the problem of genesis, is a temporal issue, though not a simple or straightforward one. As temporal, it indicates a clear relation to futurity (deferral). This emphasis on futurity...

...This chapter offers a detailed account of Jacques Derrida's quasi-transcendental thinking. It tries to undo the ties of the interpretative straitjacket that binds Derrida's thinking into an aneconomic freeplay of differences, which sees “deconstruction” as merely the hysterical dismantling of any...

... aporia being difference exemplarity Lacan Jacques responsibility subject Žižek Slavoj consciousness exile woman lack marranismo presence secret absence globalization God humanism logocentrism metaphysics repetition terrorism beings withdrawal De Man Paul Hegel Georg Wilhelm...

.... It offers an opinion about why it is that Derrida's interest is drawn to the khôra, before showing how Plato's treatment of the khôra serves Derrida as a “sur-name” for différance, that is, a kind of “allegory” of différance...