angela
kelley wrote:
>i've been meaning to locate this quote and i finally have, but i
still
>can't find the precise refs. it's from 'dialouge with jacques
derrida'
>
>"It is precisely for strageic reasons...that i found it necessary to
recast
>the concept of text by generalizing it almost without any limit that
*is.*
>that is why there is nothing "*beyond* the text." that's why South
Africa
>and apartheid are, like you and me, part of the general text, which
is not
>to say that it can be read the way one reads a book. that's why the
text
>is always a field of forces: heterogeneous, differential, open, and
so on.
> that's why deocnstrcutvie readings and writings are concerned not
only
>with library books, with dicourses, with conceptual and semantic
contents.
>they are not simply analyses of discourse....they are also effective
or
>active...interventions that transform contexts without limiting
themselves
>to theoretical or constative utterances even though they must alos
produce
>such utterances"