一座演化中的島嶼

How to conceive what is outside a text? That which is more or less than a text's own, proper margin? -- Jacques Derrida

Since the trace is not a presence but the simulacrum of a presence that dislocates itself, displaces itself, refers itself, it properly has no site -- erasure belongs to its structure. And not only the erasure which must always be able to overtake it (without which it would not be trace but an indestructible and monumental substance), but also the erasure which constitutes it from the outset as a trace, which situates it as the change of site, and makes it disappear in its appearance, makes it emerge from itself in its production.
-- Jacques Derrida

What is the present? What is it to think the present in its presence?
-- Jacques Derrida

Certainly the notion of "human-reality" translated the project of thinking the meaning of man, the humanity of man, on a new basis, if you will.
-- Jacques Derrida

It is always dangerous to tie worldhistorical or geographical events to specific dates. Yet a date invites us to insert ourselves into events ostensibly locked in an unrecoverable past.
-- Gayatri Spivak

成大台文所找我去演講好幾次了，一直沒有去成。終於，在 T. S. Eliot 所說「最殘酷的月份」，我獨自前往，帶著許許多多可以被聽見或任誰也聽不見的意念。


April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. 　　 ...繼續閱讀

那似乎棲息在所有思想與行動起始的書寫結構，乃是一個貌似書寫的結構，但並非一般所認定的書寫。雖然稱之為書寫的，卻不能解讀為一個不在場呈現的標記(the mark of an absent presence)。這就是建立所有解構理論實踐的雙面受縛。Graphematic〔書寫的〕中的graph（書寫），就像解構中的所有概念-隱喻，乃是一種詞語誤用，一種（概念上）錯誤的隱喻，和／或一種（隱喻上）妥協的概念。也就是從這個意思上來說，「主體」的個體意義乃是書寫的、詞語誤用的。因此，人類存有乃是透過閃躲一個書寫結構的預設，來思考他們的自我。
── Gayatri Spivak

講者：張君玫
時間：2009/04/10　18:00
地點：台南成功大學台灣文學所
　

1. Global capitalism and/or postcolonialism
2. The tropological deconstruction
3. Feminism and the axiomatics of imperialism
4. Complicity, responsibility, and ethical singularity
5. Subaltern speech and the guardians of the margins
6. Cultural translation and transnational literacy
7. Value-coding machine and the postcolonial catachresis

在界限上，「大寫歷史」與其說是一種指稱權威份量的超驗意符，其實更是一種詞語誤用，一個沒有字面指稱物的隱喻。
── Gayatri Spivak

The Thought of Being is what permits us to say, without naiveté, reduction, or blasphemy, "God, for example".
-- Jacques Derrida