The Dangers of Writing: Being Written

Abstract

Derrida’s logocentrism thesis, tenability of the Derridean project; phonocentrism; metaphysics and hierarchies; debasement of writing; history of the debasement of writing; the order of the sign; privileging of the phonic; the order of the sign as metaphysics’ Other; soul writing and physical writing; analogy between the soul and the book; writing as enfixing, writing as mimesis; painting as writing’s double; writing as reifying representation and limitation; the ranking of signifiers by their proximity to truth and presence; writing as sorcery; living memory and dead memory; writing as alien to the soul; ontology of writing; the mnemic space (living memory) as the aletheic space; writing as contamination of the aletheic space, as concealment, as forgottenness, as death.