The Margin as Center: Derrida, Self-Authorship, and the Work of Creative Surplus

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Deconstruction is the act of noticing what you’ve had to set aside about yourself to stay legible. Derrida developed it in the 1960s from a simple observation: language is alive. It moves. It generates meaning beyond what anyone intended, pointing in directions its speaker never planned. He called this différance — the idea that meaning is never f…