OnDerrida

“//nothing outside of the text//” – cause all you do is read JD! (sorry, really, i like you)

The center **constrables** freeplay But how can something that doesn’t exist constrable? Oh right, 'cause it does exist, in our heads. But if we act like it exists, doesn't it, in a way, still exist? After all, the unmarked (middle-class, white, male, U.S. citizen) is still very much entrenched in contemporary discourse.

What’s an alternative to being as //presence//? Being as a network of changing connections?

Anxiety not so bad? We certainly enjoy horror/ghost stories and somewhat-anxiety-producing delayed gratification, like in Calcutta Chromosome… or sex. We are all certainly in a double bind regarding our love/hate relationship with anxiety, certainty, final solutions, and having a great deal at stake in marvelous/terrifying reality.
 * Nietzschean affirmation**

we need to develop ways to speak within the dominant discourse, and yet contest it. it has to be able to 'stand in' for what it's replacing. or does it? does L-S have an alternative to speaking of the bricoleur, even though it's defined against the 'engineer' which doesn't 'exist'?
 * a step outside / the not outside** (double meaning lost in translation).