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Glossing Errors: Notes on Reading the "Envois" Noisily

  • Kamillea Aghtan (author)
Chapter of: Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida(pp. 161–169)

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TitleGlossing Errors
SubtitleNotes on Reading the "Envois" Noisily
ContributorKamillea Aghtan (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0171.1.11
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/going-postcard-the-letters-of-jacques-derrida/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightAghtan, Kamillea
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2017-05-15
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 rangepp. 161–169
Print length9 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)