
Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
Why Theory
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Is There a Vitality in the Cut and I?
Joan Berksen is really one of the main targets in this chapter, and she's really attacking here. She says Derrida doesn't understand that his play depends upon the closure of the totality, not the openness. So clearly, not all signification can slide, because it doesn't work, there's not a sense-making element to it.
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