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Derrida: Signature Event Context

May

11

Derrida: Signature Event Context

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Fri, 11 May 2018

18:30 – 21:00 BST

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LARC

62 Fieldgate Street

London

E1 1ES

United Kingdom

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Derrida: Signature Event Context
Friday, 11 May 2018, 18:30–21:00
LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES
Closest stations: Whitechapel / Aldgate East

Facilitated by Nat Pimlott and Sophia Kosmaoglou
Suggested donation £2

In May we're discussing Signature Event Context, Jacques Derrida's essay on John Austin's speech act theory. Derrida was a the major figure in post-structuralism and his work has had a significant influence across a wide range of disciplines since the 1960s.

DOWNLOAD Derrida, Jacques (1988/1972). Signature Event Context. In Limited Inc, trans. Samuel Weber and Jeffrey Mehlman. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, pp. 1-23.

[SYMPOSIUM] is a monthly reading group on the intersections between art practice and critical theory. Everyone can propose a text and facilitate the reading group. Please visit the website for more information.

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was a French philosopher best known for developing an approach to criticism known as deconstruction. One of the major figures in post-structuralist thought and postmodern philosophy his work has had a significant influence across a wide range of disciplines since the 1960s – alongside attracting criticism and occasional controversy.

In Signature Event Context Derrida argues that while ordinary discourse privileges the idea of communication as being about the transmission of meaning this function largely depends on a vaguely defined but commonly accepted idea of ‘context’ – as for example the context provided by philosophical discourse. He instead challenges the idea that ‘context’ – the parameters within which meaning is determined – is ever absolutely determined.

Derrida’s argument hinges on a shift of the classical subject of philosophy - the pursuit and identification of the bases of external meaning - to the hidden structures underpinning the systems that are employed to examine meaning – language, discourse and writing. Through this he seeks to question some of the assumptions underpinning the enterprise of philosophy (and other disciplines) as it is traditionally conceived and radically the ability of writing to be said to contain meaning.

Strongly criticized by philosophers from an analytical tradition for the validity and sufficiency of his arguments and the accuracy of his analysis of other philosophers' work, Derrida’s text nonetheless poses some far reaching questions about the fundamental stability of the context in which we normally seek to establish meaning. He argues that rather than this instability being in opposition to meaning, as articulated through writing, that instability – or non-meaning is in fact structurally inherent in this endeavour.

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