Glossing Errors: Notes on Reading the "Envois" Noisily

Kamillea Aghtan (author)

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Title	Glossing Errors
Subtitle	Notes on Reading the "Envois" Noisily
Contributor	Kamillea Aghtan (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0171.1.11
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/going-postcard-the-letters-of-jacques-derrida/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Aghtan, Kamillea
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2017-05-15
Long abstract	“No longer spermit,” Derrida(-Bass) writes (PC, 195), violat-ing grammar and spelling rules, abusing “language itself ” as he promises on the back cover of The Post Card. This slip is one of many studded throughout the “Envois,” rupturing the sense of sentences and recoding the delicate mechanisms of meaning embedded within linguistic coils. The strange new grammar within this section of The Post Card spreads like a trap to net the impatient reader, the analytical thinker, and the careful glossa-tor all at once. This fine gauze of error invites complicity while refusing participation and twists us towards a reading of mix-tures and of multiple, contrary truths.
Page range	pp. 161–169
Print length	9 pages
Language	English (Original)

“No longer spermit,” Derrida(-Bass) writes (PC, 195), violat-ing grammar and spelling rules, abusing “language itself ” as he promises on the back cover of The Post Card. This slip is one of many studded throughout the “Envois,” rupturing the sense of sentences and recoding the delicate mechanisms of meaning embedded within linguistic coils. The strange new grammar within this section of The Post Card spreads like a trap to net the impatient reader, the analytical thinker, and the careful glossa-tor all at once. This fine gauze of error invites complicity while refusing participation and twists us towards a reading of mix-tures and of multiple, contrary truths.