Sunday, October 2, 2011

Derrida and the Language Trap

When reading Jacques Derrida's article Differance, I was constantly reminded of a book by writer Jack Halberstam entitled A Queer Time and Place. In this book, Halberstam examines the queer body in all its manifestations- transgender, transsexual, gay, intersex, etc- as a specific place in which our conceptions of time and space intersect. Halberstam examines how our vision of the queer body forces us to confront our sociohistoric visions of time and space and breaks them down, revealing their limitations and providing an image for a possible future embodied specifically by the transsexual body.

As I read Differance, I wondered what Derrida would have to say about the Halberstam's book and the queer movement in general.

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