The trace is not a presence but is rather the simulacrum of a presence that dislocates, displaces, and refers beyond itself. The trace has no place, but rather the topos of its displacement is always other.
— Jacques Derrida Contemporary

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Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs

Date / Period

1967

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708681

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