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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Signature Event Context (1972), by Jacques Derrida
context, language, linguistics, metaworks, performance, theory
Jacques Derrida