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Saturday, October 19, 2002
Resistance is useless, honey
Pooh, it's true, manages, through byzantine byways that I will track below, to body forth the key principles of Deconstruction with uncanny fidelity. And that fact, given the apparent temporal priority of Milne over Derrida, would seem to prove the timeless pertinence of the latter's approach to textuality. Yet what is the leçon of Derrida, that consummate rhetor of the iterable and the dehiscent, if not that clear sight, the grasping of significance, and even historical precedence (to say nothing of timeless truth) are all illusions, effects of that very différance that constitutes the only legitimate object of critical scrutiny?
[Not relevant to Lear, perhaps, but funny and nonsensical all the same.]
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review
posted by Marco Graziosi Saturday, October 19, 2002
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