Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:05:21 -0500 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Re: futur anterieur Geo > "The site is not the empirical and national Here of a territory. It is > immemorial and thus also the future. Better: It is tradition as adventure" > (Difference and Writing). > Let's try to understand this statement: 1) "The site a physical, geographical location is a "site" 2) is not the empirical and national Here of a territory empirical - known by experience national - known by the nation Here - (capitalized) - a special "here" presumably known to Derrida's addressees (readers) territory - a bounded geographical space - the "site" of which Derrida writes? 3) It is immemorial and thus also the future immemorial - Long past, beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history. future - Derrida assumes the future will repeat the past? 4) It is tradition and adventure tradition - a narrative about the past adventure - a) personal experience in the present, or b) another person's experience (as narrated) Thus when I sit down to read "Difference and Writing", I expect a narrative of certain experience(s) of Derrida. Reading that narrative will be my experience/adventure i.e. the act of reading. So tradition is, or can be adventure, but it is not the site or the Here of a territory, merely tradition as adventure. I will guess that the "Here" of the site, is for Derrida, all he can see, feel, hear, say, know, think about "a" site or "the" site which is normally a particular location, known to the nation. But it might be an abstraction pertaining to all sites Derrida had "in mind" as he wrote. regards, Hugh
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