If we reflect on experience in general, what we cannot deny is that experience is conditioned by time.
Every experience, necessarily, takes place in the present. In the present experience, there is the kernel or point of the now.
What is happening right now is a kind of event, different from every other now I have ever experienced.
Yet, also in the present, I remember the recent past and I anticipate what is about to happen. The memory and the anticipation consist in repeatability.
Because what I experience now can be immediately recalled, it is repeatable and that repeatability therefore motivates me to anticipate the same thing happening again. Therefore, what is happening right now is also not different from every other now I have ever experienced.
At the same time, the present experience is an event and it is not an event because it is repeatable. This “at the same time” is the crux of the matter for Derrida. The conclusion is that we can have no experience that does not essentially and inseparably contain these two agencies of event and repeatability.
NOT TO WORRY I don't understand Derrida either
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