What we deem to be a book is not a finished corpus of
writing, some content enclosed in a book or its margins.
A 'book' is a fabric of traces referring endlessly to something
other than itself, to other differential traces,
Does this transform the world into a library by
doing away with all boundaries?
This problematises the notion of author. - the author is also text, to be read,
not as a governing presence. For the self (author) is a ghost
Derrida, "Living
On/Borderlines", p. 81; pp. 83-84).
writing, some content enclosed in a book or its margins.
A 'book' is a fabric of traces referring endlessly to something
other than itself, to other differential traces,
Does this transform the world into a library by
doing away with all boundaries?
This problematises the notion of author. - the author is also text, to be read,
not as a governing presence. For the self (author) is a ghost
Derrida, "Living
On/Borderlines", p. 81; pp. 83-84).
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