Signature Event Context (1972), by Jacques Derrida


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Jacques Derrida

Is it certain that to the word communication corresponds a concept that is unique, univocal, rigorously controllable, and transmittable: in a word, commu­nicable? Thus, in accordance with a strange figure of discourse, one must first of all ask oneself whether or not the word or signifier “communication” communi­cates a determinate content, an identifiable meaning, or a describable value.
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