Saturday, 26 February 2011

Dress and Deconstruction

Dress and Clothing/Deconstruction
Rapture: Art’s seduction by fashion, Chris Townsend, Thames and Hudson London

Jacque Derrida – Writing and Difference “In repetition or playful return, how could the ghostly centre not call to us?

Chris Townsend quotes p62 Jacque Derrida – Fors
Subjective interiority – the hidden structural condition of being – is called to the surface and made obvious as a particular effect upon which both body and soul, which is is otherwise effaced by our attention to surface appearances.
Combining the Latin foris (outside) with the French for interieur (inner heart) the idea of the fors permits an imagination of surface where the two seeming opposing terms are constitutive of each other.
Deconstruction theory and practice, Christopher Norris
Page 19 chapter 2 derrida – deconstruction in its most rigorous form acts a s a constant reminder of the ways in which language deflects or complicates the philosophers project. A bove all, deconstruction works to undo these ideas – according to Derrida, the ruling illusion on western metaphysics – that reasons can somehow dispense with language and arrive at a pure, self authenticating truth or method.
Page 45 – Derrida 1973 – Although spoken language is a highly complex structure, always containing in fact an indicative stratum, which as we shall see is confined within its limits. Norris later states that the idea of consciousness can be fully authentic only when its workings express the present activity of a human subject. Expression as the breath or soul of meaning and language as the mere physical body which it comes to animate.

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