Sheep Tracks: A Multi-Species Impression
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2012-05-07
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Oliphaunt Books
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Here, in a postscript to Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida tells an autobiographical or pseudo-autobiographical story of how it is that he came to write these words. Covering his tracks as he appears to uncover them, back-tracking over the marks on paper that are now variously hosted in print and electronic media, he winks at us. Was he there on that rim, above that very volcano? Did his own mal’ d’archive lead him to a supposed origin—an origin that reduces his Neapolitan jaunts to a repetition compulsion? As we read them, Derrida’s tracks flicker in and out of being, and...
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This book chapter was originally published in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects. The full e-book is available from the publisher at https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0006.1.00
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Yates, Julian. “Sheep Tracks: A Multi-Species Impression.” In Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 173–210. Oliphaunt Books, 2012. https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0006.1.00