Derrida on the line

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Jackson, S. ORCID: 0000-0003-2454-0354, 2017. Derrida on the line. Derrida Today, 10 (2), pp. 142-159. ISSN 1754-8500

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2017.0153

Abstract

By offering us a voice that is both at a distance and inside one's own head, the telephone causes interference in thinking and writing. But despite the multiple telephones that echo in and across Jacques Derrida's work, and specifically his writing to and with Hélène Cixous, it is only since Derrida's death that critical interest in the phone has fully emerged, with work by Royle (2006), Prenowitz (2008), Bennington (2013) and Turner (2014) stressing the value of staying on the line. Engaging with Derrida, however, is not simply a matter of picking up the receiver. For the telephone is also, Derrida insists in H.C. for Life (2006), a 'poetico-technical invention', that is, the telephone is 'thought itself'. This paper is about how the telephone 'thinks' Derrida, about how it remembers Derrida, and about how it offers us a line for re-imagining his voice. Bound up with the uncanny mechanisms of the telephone, it invites readers to participate in long-distance calling–listening across species, texts and worlds.

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Journal article

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Derrida Today

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Jackson, S.

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2017

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1754-8500