Request for some assistance

[Jenn Cole]

I agree with Ric - the whole book is the best way through! But the Artaud
essay in Writing and Difference may also be helpful?

Jenn


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Ric Knowles <rknowles at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Hi Conrad,
>
> Hmmm. It's the whole book. It's maybe most clear (if he can ever be
> accused of clarity) in the chapter on Saussure (pages 27-73 in Spivak's
> translation). But right off the top (page 3) he talks about the
> "ethnocentrism" of a structuralist logic that privileges phonetic writing
> as the supposed record of some mythical "originary" speech that is the
> supposed language of civilization and intelligence and the basis of
> metaphysics, while disregarding ideographic or pictographic writing
> traditions that have nothing to do with phonetics. But this is just the tip
> of the iceberg. Sorry, but I think you gotta read the whole book (and
> Spivak's amazing introduction to it).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ric
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Conrad Alexandrowicz" <conrada at UVIC.CA>
> To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 4:52:46 PM
> Subject: Request for some assistance
>
> Attention all you Derridettes!
>
> I'm revising an article about my SSHRC-funded project concerned with
> staging poetry, which is mostly complete, and I need to address the issue
> of the historical privileging of speech over writing. I gather M. Derrida
> dealt with this extensively in De la Grammatologie.
>
> Could someone do me the great favour of pointing out where in this massive
> and daunting slab of text this topic is addressed?
>
> Much appreciated,
>
> --
> Conrad Alexandrowicz, Associate Professor
> Movement, Acting and Devised Physical Theatre
> Department of Theatre
> University of Victoria
>
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