It was forty years ago today. . .Of grammatology 1967-2007

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A palintropic genealogy of the diaphanous exactitude of pe(n)ser

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Reading – Thinking

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The impossibility of sympathy

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Without name: The war without end

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Enter time the winter’s tale, Aristotle and Derrida

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Rencontrer: To find oneself, to collide, before and in front

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