Différance plays on the fact that the French word différer means both " to defer " and " to differ.

* Derrida, Jacques Letter to A Japanese Friend, in Wood, David and Bernasconi, Robert ( eds., 1988 ) Derrida and Différance, Warwick: Parousia, 1985

In his 1989 Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Richard Rorty argues that Derrida ( especially in his book, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond ) purposefully uses words that cannot be defined ( e. g. Différance ), and uses previously definable words in contexts diverse enough to make understanding impossible, so that the reader will never be able to contextualize Derrida's literary self.

Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida, deliberately homophonous with the word " différence ".

In the essay " Différance " Derrida indicates that différance gestures at a number of heterogeneous features that govern the production of textual meaning.

Following his presentation of his paper " Différance " in 1968, Derrida was faced with an annoyed participant who said, " It is the source of everything and one cannot know it: it is the God of negative theology.

Yet, in the article " Différance ," Derrida refers différance not to physis, that is, life, but to " all the others of physis — tekhnè, nomos, thesis, society, freedom, history, mind, etc .— as physis differed and deferred, or as physis differing and deferring.

::" Différance is not only irreducible to any ontological or theological -- ontotheological -- reappropriation, but as the very opening of the space in which ontotheology -- philosophy -- produces its system and its history, it includes ontotheology, inscribing it and exceeding it without return.

This difference from Hegel should be understood as essential from the start, and the Différance being one of the first terms that he tried more accurately to distinguish from all forms of Hegelian difference when proceeding with deconstruction.

“ Viktor Shklovskij: Différance in Defamiliarization .” Comparative Literature 36 ( 1984 ): 209-19.

The term was then elaborated in various other works, notably in his essay " Différance " and in various interviews collected in Positions.

It may seem contradictory to suggest that Différance is neither a word nor a concept.

As John Caputo writes, " Différance is but a quasi-transcendental anteriority, not a supereminent, transcendental ulteriority.

In light of this, and the practical difficulty of managing such long keys, modern cryptographic practice has discarded the notion of perfect secrecy as a requirement for encryption, and instead focuses on computational security, under which the computational requirements of breaking an encrypted text must be infeasible for an attacker.

The Eulerian description, introduced by d ' Alembert, focuses on the current configuration, giving attention to what is occurring at a fixed point in space as time progresses, instead of giving attention to individual particles as they move through space and time.

This form of critical theory is not necessarily oriented toward radical social change or even toward the analysis of society, but instead focuses on the analysis of texts.

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* The Heisenberg picture of quantum mechanics focuses on observables and instead of considering states as varying in time, it regards the states as fixed and the observables as changing.

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Postmodernism is therefore skeptical of explanations that claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person.

Proponents describe systems biology as a biology-based inter-disciplinary study field that focuses on complex interactions in biological systems, claiming that it uses a new perspective ( holism instead of reduction ).

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At the end of the novel, Stevens instead focuses on the " remains of day ", referring to his future service with Mr Farraday.

Awareness of physical attraction plays a key role in the development of limerence, but is not enough to satisfy the limerent desire, and is almost never the main focus — instead, the limerent focuses on what could be defined as the " beneficial attributes ".

Rote learning is a technique which avoids understanding the inner complexities and inferences of the subject that is being learned and instead focuses on memorizing the material so that it can be recalled by the learner exactly the way it was read or heard.

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Restorative justice ( also sometimes called reparative justice ) is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender.

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In chimpanzees, the mother focuses no attention on umbilical severance, instead nursing her baby with cord, placenta, and all, until the cord dries and separates within a day of birth, at which time the cord is discarded.

However, re-reading focuses responsibility instead of dividing it ( as double-reading and copy holding, both described above, do ) and obviously requires extra effort from proofreaders and a measure of independence from management.

In the seventh installment, the battle clearly focuses on Cao Pi's point of view, where he leads the attack on Wuchao, defeating and recruiting Zhang He ( who'd been its defender instead of attacking Cao Cao's camp as in history ).

The theme of revenge is pastiched from Hamlet, but the play focuses on the atrocities of blood retribution instead of developing philosophical reflection.

Vagrant Story is unique as a console action / adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters ; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy.

The Gnosis take a back seat for Episode II and instead, the main plot focuses on the search for the Zohar, which culminates in a crisis at the location of Old Miltia.

Another school, generally coming from the political left argues that Ehrlich focuses too much on overpopulation as a problem in itself, instead of distribution of resources.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

It looks more like they are going to play at the beach instead of taking lessons on bettering themselves.

So escalation proceeds, ad infinitum or, more accurately, until the contestants begin dropping them on each other instead of on their respective proving grounds.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

The head is mounted on a horizontal arm that swivels on the supporting column to position the drill bit instead of the work.

The drug's chemical name is listed, since most states require feed processors to use this name instead of the trade name on the feed tag.

Promotion is too often based on longevity and time in salary grade instead of merit.

( 3 ) in a state of depression, the positive conditioned stimulus may fail to elicit a conditioned reaction but cause an increased synchrony instead of the excitatory desynchronizing ( alerting ) effect on the Aj.

One such disagreement, which will receive attention in this next chapter, concerns the question whether rates for different kinds of service, in order to avoid the attribute of discrimination, must be made directly proportional to marginal costs, or whether they should be based instead on differences in marginal costs.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

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But instead of chatter there was a null, like on the radio direction finder.

One effect of the proposal, which puts a premium on population instead of economic strength, as in the past, would be to take jobs from European nations and give more to such countries as India.

Now as you step inside, instead of seeing particles orbiting around like planets, you see waves and ripples very much like the ripples that you get on the surface of a pond when you drop a stone into it.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.