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Derrida’s Unfinished Book

This chapter draws from the provocations of Derrida’s thought to undo heuristic assumptions (including some of Derrida’s own) about what constitutes a book. From the beginning of his career, Derrida resisted the idea of the book, which he regarded as a powerful metaphor of, and technology for, gathering things together. But in fact the book has never been a certain bulwark against the dissipative, fissiparous effects of writing. In the broadened sense Derrida gives the term, writing is that which happens. The book can then be said to be an adapted environment: not a shelter, however brief, from history but, on the contrary, a point of its uncontrolled accretion and acceleration. For Derrida’s most provocative thoughts on the nature of the book we will in the future need to look to his dispersed and extended work on questions of the archive.