Leggo my Pomo

[Joe Varo]

On Fri, 23 May 1997, still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made wrote:

> [...]
> My fiancee has made this observation about deconstruction.  I would agree,
> in general.  But I have two caveats:  1) if you are going to pick up the
> monkey wrench, be willing to truly and thoroughly use it on your _own_
> constructions, and 2) it would be a good idea to think about what you're
> going to do after you've taken apart your object of analysis and are
> sitting around in a world (or at least, region) of fragments.
> [...]

Actually, I think that Derrida himself said (I think in the book of
interviews, _Positions_) that eventually even deconstruction itself would
require being deconstructed.

I think that Derrida always stresses the "play" of language, the back and
forth play of the binary oppositions, the central and marginal.

IMHO, deconstruction has been bastardized in America where is seems that
deconstructive critics show how the marginal is actually central and stop
there, essentially just setting up a binary opposition more to their
liking.  I don't think that this is what Derrida has in mind.

As for caveat #2, you just have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Joe