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Derrida and the fiction of force

Derrida and the fiction of force ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 12 number 2 august 2007 could as soon present force to you, as I could Iconfine between these pages two mighty monarchies, or cram into this journal the vasty fields of France. That’s a figure of speech called adynaton – which means forceless, or impossible. It presents an inadequacy, inability or lack of power through the comparison with a hyperbolic impossibility. But there’s nothing modest or thwarted about this figure: glorying in what it claims not to be able to do, it pushes or leaps out of it, perhaps even a little cavalier in its intolerance of the merely feasible. Heroic in its ardour, lusty in its appetites, it gleefully courts bathos and relishes the risks it takes. It doubles up forcelessness to clare connors make imaginary puissance – which is to say both that it makes of force a fiction, and that its force is that of fiction, conjuring its own efficacy, making itself up as it goes along. It is the ‘‘fiction DERRIDA AND THE of force’’ in this double sense that fascinates FICTION OF FORCE Derrida – for whom it has, I think, a serio-comic, philosophico-literary potential. And it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

Derrida and the fiction of force

Connors, Clare
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 12 (2): 7 – Aug 1, 2007
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Derrida and the fiction of force

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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 12 number 2 august 2007 could as soon present force to you, as I could Iconfine between these pages two mighty monarchies, or cram into this journal the vasty fields of France. That’s a figure of speech called adynaton – which means forceless, or impossible. It presents an inadequacy, inability or lack of power through the comparison with a hyperbolic impossibility. But there’s nothing modest or thwarted about this...
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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 12 number 2 august 2007 could as soon present force to you, as I could Iconfine between these pages two mighty monarchies, or cram into this journal the vasty fields of France. That’s a figure of speech called adynaton – which means forceless, or impossible. It presents an inadequacy, inability or lack of power through the comparison with a hyperbolic impossibility. But there’s nothing modest or thwarted about this figure: glorying in what it claims not to be able to do, it pushes or leaps out of it, perhaps even a little cavalier in its intolerance of the merely feasible. Heroic in its ardour, lusty in its appetites, it gleefully courts bathos and relishes the risks it takes. It doubles up forcelessness to clare connors make imaginary puissance – which is to say both that it makes of force a fiction, and that its force is that of fiction, conjuring its own efficacy, making itself up as it goes along. It is the ‘‘fiction DERRIDA AND THE of force’’ in this double sense that fascinates FICTION OF FORCE Derrida – for whom it has, I think, a serio-comic, philosophico-literary potential. And it

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