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Jacques Derrida's "Of Grammatology" (Part 1/2)

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The Importance of Structure in Writing

Semioticians have often said, you know, the signifier is arbitrary. Derrida: Is it really true that anything we could have used would just correspond to the real thing in the world if we just all agreed upon it? So writing is co-extensive with a kind of structure as per structuralism.

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