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<pre wrap="">"It may be acknowledged, then, that in the rereading to which we are
invited by Rousset, light is menaced from within by that which also
metaphysically menaces every structuralism: the possibility of conceal-
ing meaning through the very act of uncovering it. To comprehend the
structure of a becoming, the form of a force, is to lose meaning by
finding it. The meaning of becoming and of force, by virtue of their
pure, intrinsic characteristics, is the repose of the beginning and the
end, the peacefulness of a spectacle, horizon or face. Within this
peace and repose the character of becoming and of force is disturbed
by meaning itself. The meaning of meaning is Apollonian by virtue of
everything within it that can be seen."
--p. 31 Writing and Difference
On 10-11-18 08:42, A.O. wrote:
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<pre wrap="">"One must refer to language’s peculiar inability to emerge from itself
in order to articulate its origin, and not to the thought of force.
Force is the other of language without which language would not be what
it is.
In order to respect this strange movement within language, in order
not to reduce it in turn, we would have to attempt a return to the
metaphor of darkness and light (of self-revelation and self-
concealment), the founding metaphor of Western philosophy as meta-
physics. The founding metaphor not only because it is a photological
one—and in this respect the entire history of our philosophy is a pho-
tology, the name given to a history of, or treatise on, light—but
because it is a metaphor."
--p. 31 Writing and Difference
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<pre wrap="">To say that force is the origin of the phenomenon is to say nothing.
By its very articulation force becomes a phenomenon. Hegel demon-
strated convincingly that the explication of a phenomenon by a force is
a tautology. 58
--p. 31 Writing and Difference
On 08-11-18 08:49, A.O. wrote:
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<pre wrap="">"Allan Megill believes Derrida is right in thinking that Foucault
remains bound up in a "spatial metaphoric that is force-excluding"
(232). "In his critique of History of Madness, Derrida points out that
Foucault is, by his own argument, trapped within 'logocentrism,' within
the general historical guilt borne by Western language. For whatever his
claims to be resurrecting the silent language of an oppressed madness,
Foucault continues to speak the language of the very reason that carried
out the oppression in the first place. In short, he is still caught
within [and strengthening] the all-powerful order that he is seeking to
evade.... Derrida's characteristic response to the historical guilt that
in his view inevitably accompanies Western reason is to engage in a play
with the text" (233).
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<pre wrap="">"Foucault understands Descartes as having been the first to expel
madness in an "act of force," for he considered it simply an
impossibility. Derrida disagrees, saying that Descartes doesn't exclude
madness but rather brings it to a hyperbolical exasperation. While
Foucault thinks Descartes wanted to neutralize the originality of
madness in order to make it the Cogito's other, Derrida thinks that one
only gets to the Cogito through the total madness embodied in the malin
genie. If Derrida is right, Foucault's whole project is trouble, for if
the Cogito only emerges through total madness, the desire to let madness
speak for itself is a gesture of strengthening the Cogito. Not only
that, but Foucault would have done an extreme disservice to the
radicality of the Cartesian project (by nevertheless participating in it)."
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<pre wrap="">"Derrida believes force is a by product of language's power of
signification. Because the signifier is always in excess, meaning more
than it is supposed to, the writer's intended meaning cannot contain it;
this is the force of language. "Force is not darkness, and it is not
hidden under a form for which it would serve as substance, matter, or
crypt. Force cannot be conceived on the basis of an oppositional couple,
that is, on the basis of the complicity between phenomenology and
occultism. Nor can it be conceived, from within phenomenology, as the
fact opposed to meaning."
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