A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.


Dissemination (ed. 2004)

Jacques Derrida Quotes

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text...

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text...

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text...

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text...