>Subject: Centre-periphery
>Date sent: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:10:37
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What is the center -- the "logocenter" -- but the other of the periphery?
Certainly the center will not hold, but it would be a mistake to reify the
periphery in its wake -- for as such it cannot hold. _Madness and
Civilization_ makes this point, I think. The other -- the margins -- are
not cocentric circles reaching toward the perimeter of existence. Rather,
injustice is non-thematizable, a matter of rage, of madness (see Derrida and
Levinas), and as such the margins remain a place where not-so-hot player
wait in anticipation of the big game.
>Date sent: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:10:37
>
What is the center -- the "logocenter" -- but the other of the periphery?
Certainly the center will not hold, but it would be a mistake to reify the
periphery in its wake -- for as such it cannot hold. _Madness and
Civilization_ makes this point, I think. The other -- the margins -- are
not cocentric circles reaching toward the perimeter of existence. Rather,
injustice is non-thematizable, a matter of rage, of madness (see Derrida and
Levinas), and as such the margins remain a place where not-so-hot player
wait in anticipation of the big game.