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General nature or nature terms.
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supplement
Literature; General
In Derrida's reading of Plato in Dissemination, Derrida would agree with Plato's notion of writing as a supplement or as a pharmakon. As a supplement introduced to the body, the pharmakon is both at ...
trace
Literature; General
The essential or constitutive process by which every sign is related to every other.
undecidability
Literature; General
Effect of writing where the later is concieved, by Derrida, as a system of spacing and differences that encompasses language in general. As a site where the effects of writing are writ large, the ...
under erasure
Literature; General
Derridean term which forms part of the vocabulary of deconstructionism. To place a word under erasure is to indicate that word is inaccurate or mistaken but remains one which we cannot escape using. ...
writerly
Literature; General
By contrast (to readerly), writerly texts reveal those elements that the readerly attempts to conceal. The reader, now in a position of control, takes an active role in the construction of meaning. ...
arche-writing
Literature; General
Primal condition of everything that can be taken as having the condition of writing: all human expression and thought. The characteristics of arche-writing are such things as lack of origin, lack of ...
connotation
Literature; General
Connotation involves meanings that are generated by connecting signifiers to wider cultural concerns. Here, meaning involves the association of signs with other cultural codes of meaning.
