Readings
“if the texts that interest us mean something, it is the engagement and the appurtenance that encompass existence and writing in the same tissue, the same text.“
(Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Spivak. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press: 1974 p.150)
For tissue read textile, for appurtenance read impertinence.
A collection of texts. Each piece selected and presented by a member of the Electric Text, with a written response from another. Follow the links.
Material / Response.
We suggest reading aloud.
Last 30 Posts
- Fish Sex Feminism: Response (January 13, 2017)
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“For the Love of Fish”:
Fish Fetish– (Fish / Sex)– in Early Modern England (January 13, 2017) -
Preliminary Notes //
The Architecture of Experience (October 6, 2015) - Talking about Truth (September 13, 2015)
- TRUTHINESS (April 23, 2015)
- Response to Political Concepts (April 10, 2015)
- Political Concepts: O p a c i t é (April 10, 2015)
- Response to Allusion (April 7, 2015)
- Allusion (March 27, 2015)
- Response to Drugs (March 4, 2015)
- Drugs (March 2, 2015)
- Response to Aesthetic Theory (February 27, 2015)
- Aesthetic Theory (February 27, 2015)
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