Derrida Page #2

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an invisible

or indivisible trait...

that lies between the philosophy

on the one hand...

and the life of an author

on the other.

[ Chattering ]

- Hi. My name's Jenny.

- Hi.

Listening to you speak just elucidated

your texts just so much to me.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- [ Giggles ]

- But I just wanted to meet you.

- Thank you.

I-I read your novel, one of

your novels over the summer.

I just wanted to hear you speak

so I could understand it better.

I started reading about negative

theology... [ Garbled ]

and I was wondering

if there was any connection...

between, you said

a specific Christian discourse...

but I was wondering if there

was any connection between

that and say Hebrew cabala...

- uh, and something--

- Yeah, it never, it never finishes.

But it's not the same thing.

Cabala is full of...

such gentle God beyond God--

[ Microphone Interference ]

[ Continues, Indistinct ]

- But it doesn't mean

there aren't a number of--

- Thank you.

[ Woman ] You're very well known

in the States for deconstruction.

Can you talk a little bit

about the origin of that idea?

[ In French ]

[ Woman ] The very condition

of a deconstruction...

may be at work in the work, within

the system to be deconstructed.

It may already be located there,

already at work.

Not at the center

but in an eccentric center...

in a corner whose eccentricity assures

the solid concentration of the system...

participating in the construction

of what it, at the same time...

threatens to deconstruct.

One might then be inclined

to reach this conclusion.

Deconstruction is not an operation

that supervenes afterwards...

from the outside, one fine day.

It is always already at work

in the work.

Since the disruptive force

of deconstruction...

is always already contained within

the very architecture of the work...

all one would finally have to do

to be able to deconstruct...

given this always already,

is to do memory work.

Yet since I want neither

to accept or to reject...

a conclusion formulated

in precisely these terms...

let us leave this question

suspended for the moment.

[ Chattering ]

[ In French ]

[ Beeping ]

[ Beeping ]

[ Meows ]

[ Speaking French ]

[ Woman ]

[ Woman ] Who is it that is

addressing you?

Since it is not an author,

a narrator or a deus ex machina...

it is an ''I'"that is both

part of the spectacle...

and part of the audience.

An ''I'"that,

a bit like ''you, '"

undergoes its own incessant

violent reinscription...

within the arithmetical machinery.

An ''I'"that functioning

as a pure passageway...

for operations

of substitution...

is not some singular

and irreplaceable existence...

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