Zenobia: Différance as a Perceptual Proposition
“Instead of thinking of Différance as the opposition to presence, what if we think of Différance as the as a series of signs interconnected in a temporal chain as opposed to a paradox where there is no ghost haunting presence, because there is no presence in a constant stream. Don’t you say as much? This presence, truth, was invented and it gives meaning, or signification, to presence. This original truth spoken from the first word, the first representation. The word represents the truth and the truth conceal the fact that it is a representation of the outside world in a system where the inside is privileged over the outside.” Said Zenobia as we were talking about my absence. It was after I didn’t talk to her week eventhough we were living together. She continued, “We are not imprisoned by an image. The image doesn’t even make sense as something present. If there is a sensible image then it only exists because ...