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Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

Why Theory

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Derrida's Quilting Point

Derrida doesn't have a theory for it, exactly. And is very much against. Against? Yeah, yeah. She thinks that what he writes about Mr. Gradingpad is like the best thing anyone's written on Mr. Gr gradingpad. But in this system of meaning-making signification and sense-making, she imagines an infinity of meaning that cannot be sustained. It can only be sustained by saying the proper signifiers for the things you're remarking upon.

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