David Wills and the Tropological Machinery of Life.
This essay argues that David Wills's work re-articulates the relation between technology and language by treating language as a form of mechanicity engendered by tropological substitution. This tropological machinery, Wills suggests, operates automatically while producing and subtending supposedly '...
| Publicado en: | Derrida Today Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 46 - 57 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Feb2025
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