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il n'y a pas de hors-texte

— Jacques Derrida

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  1. The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or …
  2. To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
  3. At the end of Being and Nothingness...[,] Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they we…
  4. As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as w…
  5. Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

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