2013-02-24
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The Concept of Scene in Derrida
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Thank
you so much everyone!! I really appreciate your thoughts on this matter. :)
@Karen, thank you so much for your answer. Do you know any other books or
articles written by Derrida or by any other scholar that thematizes explicitly
the concept of scene? As far as I can tell this concept is profusely used
but never explained.
Is it true that Derrida is taking this concept from Freud and Lacan or is he
taking it from performance studies or threathical theory, or both?
I followed your recommendation on reading Positions but as far as I can
tell the concept of scene hardly appears.
Cutting through any speculative answers, do you think that is it possible
that the concept of scene asumes in Derrida a veritative prerrogative to
uncover the truth of the text, one that could be seen as the law of the text,
but as such as its own putting forward, and thus as a kind of desmantling of
the "truth" process that ocurrs on every text. Could the scenic
dimension open up a space of showability in the text that parallell to
the process of deconstructing the truth of the text as a way of showing the
absesnce of its law could assume any "presentative" power by not
succumbing to the reification of the present, and thus, making translucid this
very same process?
Could the scene of the text be the showability of its absent law, a
showability that would be temporal, and historical but not be found on the
theoritical underways of an absolute truth?
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