[...]tness the new to emerge from our ="trms">interdisciplinary run.

="ppl">Derrida shows, reminds, that we can never do anything ="trms">systematically.

="trms">Monstrosity in the ="trms">story Yal-o Ejdeha by ="ppl">Shamlu. ="trms">Monsters of the deep..

my aim was to show the ="trms">monstrosity of all the characters in ="ppl">King ="trms"nttrm="learn,clear,Clearl,Olearius">Lear not just Edmond. Edmond is the artist of the self. ="ppl">Shakespeare makes unacceptable characters. ="ppl">King ="trms"nttrm="learn,clear,Clearl,Olearius">Lear play is intolerable itself, an encounter with the opening of the future itself. Instead of giving in to the normalizing and legitimating re="trms">presentations which identity, recognize, and reduce everything too quickly, why not rather be ="trms">interested in theoretical ="trms">monsters, in ="trms">monstrosities which announce themselves in theoretical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading.

The proper significance is simply and ="trms">categorically deferred forever, insistent strangeness of the force of deferral, (effecting what derrida has called) the singularity of the here and now.

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> “explained” is “explained away.”

unreasonable is not concealed necessarily.

Duty to ir="trms">responsibility

any phantasmatic organization, whether collective or individual, is the invention of a ="trms">drug, or of a ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">drugs, be it aphrodisiac or not.
In talk, i ="trms">respond to the how of a ="trms">poem or text ="trms">dictating a kind of ad="trms">dictive ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading or desire in the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader.

The project of a text, the project of a theory

="trms">according to ="ppl">Freud, when the work of mourning is completed the ego becomes free and uninhabited again. Funeral speeches and related ="trms">writings, are possibilities that structures the movement of identification. Mourning is the ="trms">interiorization of the dead other, also its contrary. Politics is figured as first and foremost an organization of the time and space of mourning.

After him, it is all war and crumbling.

We know better than ever today that the dead must be able to work. And to cause to work, perhaps more than ever.


The meaning of meaning ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]deconstruction='lgc'>: a ="trms">sort of strategic device ='lgc'>+ opening ="trms">onto its own ="trms">abyss (one of the most influential approaches to texts) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">method

="ppl">Campbell ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Derridean deconstruction is visual
="ppl">Derrida's thinking helps us take images ="trms">seriously (as philosophical artefacts)
="lsts lst1">•organizational image='lgc'>: the ="trms">aesthetic ambassador for the organization (it visualizes ='lgc'>+ gives ="trms">aesthetic value to it)
="lsts lst1">•advertisement='lgc'>: preeminent image of production and ="trms">consumption of the global economy

image='lgc'> = logocentric vision ='lgc'>--need='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problematizing ='lgc'>=/= solutionizing


="prgrph">-is there a spirit of critique that is not liberatory in purpose='qstn'>?

="ppl">Derridean deconstruction='lgc'>: a critical approach ='lgc'>--draw='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attention to the operations of ="trms">method itself (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">method)='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[='lgc'>~='qstn'>? feedback types:='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">interventionist ='lgc'>--advocate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">different/contradictory ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings (of images)
="lstsrd">2. radical ='lgc'>--="trms">interest='lgc'>='lgc'>--> roots of meaning-making activity
="lstsrd">3. liberatory ='lgc'>--seek='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evoke justice (forcing an image to account for itself)
="lstsrd">4. ethical ='lgc'>--concern='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is overlooked
="lstsrd">5. innovative (productive) ='lgc'>--promote='lgc'>='lgc'>--> non-traditional ways of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (of ="trms">interpretting, of finding meaning)


intellectual climate in 1960s ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida's deconstruction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bringing Saussure's own work to its own radical paradoxical con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological approach ='lgc'>[="trms">question ='thdf'>the idea that human is an a ="trms">priori ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how humans have been diagnosed in psychiatry and (ab)normalized in criminal and sexual ='strcls'>*discourses='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reality effects at the level of body='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Barthes's ="trms">semiology ='lgc'>=/= ='thdf'>the idea that the ="trms">author is the single and ="trms">authoritative source of meaning


="ppl">Derrida's ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of concepts='lgc'>:
differance
retrait
revenant
dissemination
deconstruction
hymen
invagination
archiécriture
supplement
khora
pharmakon
scrypt
parergon
subjectile
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> levers applying torque گشتاور and displacement in the textual machinery


deconstruction
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> counter-intuitive analyses
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pre="trms">supposes a detailed knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of construction (one must become intimate with the ways something is assembled) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= cart blanche for meaning='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="frds scrmbld">Jassem's style of) ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading otherwise='lgc'>: passing the classical discipline (='lgc'>=/= abandon, jettison it) to explore what it omits, forgets, ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes, expels, marginalizes, dismisses, ignores, scorns, slights, takes too lightly, waves off, not ="trms">serious enough

="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropcentric truth='lgc'>: a truth that appears to human beings
="lsts lst1">•="trms">instrumental truth='lgc'>: a truth aimed at getting things done (making things work)
="lsts lst1">•teleological truth='lgc'>: a truth which closes debate and fastens meaning


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]visual='lgc'> = a form of control (='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>-- this aspect makes it central to organizational analyses) ='lgc'><='lgc'>==
="lstsrd">1. ='strcls'>*visual organizes reality by claiming status as the preeminent form of re="trms">presentation='strcls'>* (vision is the dominant tyrannical ="trms">phenomenology of the contemporary ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> all forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge can be ="trms">presented visually)
="lstsrd">2. ='strcls'>*conflation of the ‘seen='lgc'> = known’='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: “vision='lgc'> = ways of knowing='lgc'> = experiencing the ="trms">world” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">imagined inseparable) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='thdf'>the idea that depiction/picturing/seeing are ubiquitous features of the process by which most human beings come to know the ="trms">world as it really is for them
="lstsrd">3. ='strcls'>*visual organizes the ="trms">worldview of the seer='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visual is at its most powerful when it is most invisble (='thdf'>for example ="trms">scientific diagrams, mapping ='at'>@="nms">apass)

='strcls'>***instances of visual control='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•uniforms
="lsts lst1">•packaging
="lsts lst1">•computer software packages
="lsts lst1">•brand logos
="lsts lst1">•buildings
="lsts lst1">•websites ='at'>@="nms">apass
="lsts lst1">•management reports
="lsts lst1">•staff
="lsts lst1">•servicescapes ='lgc'>[an environment where the first/primary perceived aspect is service='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•


harmful, deficient, deformed, secondary ='lgc'>=/= superman, supergirl

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> logocentrism='lgc'>: letting the logic lead the letter ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> images are logocentric in that they create meaning by appealing to a central apparently undeconstructible ="trms">system of ="trms">authoritative truth (appealing to sources of transcendence outside of the image) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for example forensic architecture images ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida's ='strcls'>*there is nothing outside of the text='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•in investigating an image we often posses a logocentric vision, drawing it into convergence, making it coherent and giving it a non-contradictory and singularly ="trms">authoritative meaning


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
ruined coherent ="trms">heritage


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> there is no escaping the enclosure of (logocentrism of western tradition of) ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we can critically engage it from within

bricolage
bricoleur ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one is participating in the intellectual ="trms">heritage one is critiqing

death of man
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> death of ="trms">author
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Strauss ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list approach to human ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Foucault ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history of the ="trms">historical arbitrariness (of the human ="trms">sciences)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> antihumanism (of ="ppl">Barthes and ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault) sug="trms">gests it might be possible to stand outside the humanist legacy (and analyse from a ="trms">position outside) ='lgc'>==="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (escaping from human constitutes) a very human tendency that has been at work in the cultural and ="trms">social ="trms">imaginary since antiquity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for example ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's archaeology='lgc'>: (to understand) ='strcls'>*how reason determined madness in ="trms">different eras by looking at how reason evolved ="trms">historically='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> puts the analyst outside the humanist legacy of reason ='lgc'>==restore='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical illusion of mastery and control
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida

(my problem with making alternative ='strcls'>*archives, gar="trms">dens, and maps='strcls'>* in art='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical complicity (with archive and garden) ='lgc'>+ critique we direct against complicity (with archive and garden) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we cannot give up the “='lgc'>+"='lgc'> = slip into the form, logic, implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest


="large lg5" stl="font-size:152%"> logocentrism operates in images by appealing to sources of transcendence outside of the image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]map='lgc'>: visual organization of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quickly erase or black box the circumstances and ="trms">history of their own construction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> marshal vision into logocentric coherence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> act as reflection (='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentation) of the ="trms">world

radical cartography is now an established sub-discipline of geography (='strcls'>*maps are deconstructed to identify their logos='strcls'>*) ='at'>@="frds">Sina's ="trms">mimesis of ="ppl">Olearius's cartography

deconstruction is most needed at precisely those images where our immediate reaction is to say “there's nothing to be deconstructed here” (“that's just the way it is"[...]