Description
Book SynopsisMatchbook consists of nine essays written around, or in response to, work published by Jacques Derrida since 1980. The focal point of the essays is the Envois, which forms part of Derrida''s Post Card. Particular attention is paid to how that text articulates with the ethical and political emphases of Derrida''s more recent work, but also to its autobiographical conceit.
The incendiary reference of the book''s title underscores deconstruction''s engagement with questions of reading: relations between (slow) reading and the speed of technology, and the political effects of an internationalized deconstruction in a globalized culture. It is in terms of what deconstruction can have us think about the speed of technology and technologies of reading that Derrida''s work has made one of its most important contributions to philosophy and literary and cultural studies. The book concentrates on that as proof of the continued relevance of such work.
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Preface iii @toc2:Chapter 1 Jaded in America 1 Chapter 2 Lemming 00 Chapter 3 Matchbook 00 Chapter 4 To Give, letterally 00 Chapter 5 JD-ROM 000 Chapter 6 Untitled: The Gift of Death 000 Chapter 7 Forked Tongue 000 Chapter 8 Supreme Court 000 Chapter 9 Bookend: Fiber Allergics 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
