 | Jacques Derrida - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1978 - 366 pages
...but a function, a sort of nonlocus in which an infinite number of sign-substitutions came into play. This was the moment when language invaded the universal...of a center or origin, everything became discourse — provided we can agree on this word — that is to say, a system in which the central signified,... | |
 | Shirley F. Staton - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 492 pages
...but a function, a sort of nonlocus in which an infinite number of sign-substitutions came into play. This was the moment when language invaded the universal...of a center or origin, everything became discourse — provided we can agree on this word — that is to say, a system in which the central signified,... | |
 | Mihai Spariosu - Aesthetics, Modern - 1989 - 342 pages
...but a function, a sort of nonlocus in which an infinite number of sign-substitutions came into play. This was the moment when language invaded the universal...of a center or origin, everything became discourse — provided we can agree on this word — that is to say, a system in which the central signified,... | |
 | J.E. Walker - Philosophy - 1991 - 218 pages
...these latter conceptions, as too it destroys the notion of language as representation. As Derrida says: "This was the moment when language invaded the universal...problematic, the moment when, in the absence of a centre of origin, everything became discourse"48. In their different ways, contemporary thought addresses... | |
 | Northrop Frye, David Cayley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 244 pages
...into play. This moment was that in which language invaded the universal problematic; that in which, in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse . . . that is to say, when everything became a system where the central signified, the original or transcendental signified,... | |
 | Joseph Natoli, Linda Hutcheon - Social Science - 1993 - 604 pages
...coherence, structure, totality, and ground) gave way to a decentered concept of signification as play — the moment when, "in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse." In Section I, this moment of rupture was seen to mark the birth of postmodernity, in opposition to... | |
 | Joseph P. Natoli, Linda Hutcheon - Philosophy - 1993 - 608 pages
...coherence, structure, totality, and ground) gave way to a decentered concept of signification as play—the moment when, "in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse." In Section I, this moment of rupture was seen to mark the birth of postmodernity, in opposition to... | |
 | Craig Owens - Art - 1992 - 410 pages
...is described by Smithson in this text is that dizzying experience of ^centering which occurred "at the moment when language invaded the universal problematic,...the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse."2 If this collection of Smithson's writings testifies to anything in our present culture,... | |
 | Anthony Pople - Music - 1994 - 246 pages
...thought . . .')," the centre is undermined to the extent that structure must be reconceived as discourse: This was the moment when language invaded the universal problematic, the moment when, in the absence of center or origin, everything became discourse provided we can agree on this word - that is to say,... | |
 | H. L. Hix - Philosophy - 1995 - 234 pages
...However, there came a moment, according to Derrida, when "language invaded the universal problematic," and when "in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse" (280). That "everything" includes humans. In order to establish an invariable presence, the "central... | |
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This was the moment when language invaded the universal problematic, the moment when, in the absence of a center or origin, everything became discourse — provided we can agree on this word — that is to say, a system in which the central signified,... 
