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--------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- -------- Derrida in the World: Space and Post-Deconstructi ve T extual Analysis Daniel Punday Purdue University Calumet [email protected] © 2000 Daniel Punday. All rights reserved. --------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- -------- "It is therefore the game of the world that must be first thought; before attempting to understand all the forms of play in the world." --Of Grammatology 1. In the wake of deconstruction, critics have sought some way to reconcile poststructural textual analytics with a concern for political and cultural issues. The broad dissemination of Jean-François Lyotar d's notion of the "local" has come to embody this urge to move away from the abstract metaphysics critiqued by deconstruction for the sake of immersion in the "world." Thus a discourse of "location" within the world has emerged as an answer to this perceived failure of deconstructive textual analysis. Typical is Susan Bordo's departure from deconstruction: In theory, deconstructionist postmodernism stands against the ideal of disembodied knowledge and declares that ideal to be a mystification and a n impossibility .... The question remains, however, how the human knower is to negotiate this infinitely perspectival, destabilized world. Deconstructionism answers with constant vigilant suspicion of all determinate readings of culture and a partner aesthetic of ceaseless textual play as an alternative ideal. Here is where deconstruction may slip into its own fantasy of escape from human locatedness--by supposing that the critic can become wholly protean by adopting endlessly shifting, seemingly inexhaustible vantage points, none of which are "owned" by either the critic or the author of a text under examination. (142) As a result, Bordo argues, deconstruction claims to be the view from everywhere and nowhere, thus failing to recognize its own "locatedness" within the world. In other words, deconstruction's abstract textual theory must give way to a concern for "location" if we are to analyze cultural and social issues. 2. Critical "location" has been an especially important and problematic issue in postmodern feminism, where the emphasis on such positioning is coupled with the need to critique mainstream culture. The local, according to Lyotard, is to be a counterforce to the broad narratives that deconstruction has unraveled. Y et, critics find almost immediately that the local has no pragmatic, critical value without such broader 

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