VIC163H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9/19 Article: Nota Bene
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Nota bene: differance means difference and deferral of meaning . The verb differ indicates difference as distinction but also expresses interposition of delay. Sometimes corresponds with the deferred and different. Give name of difference to sameness which is not identical. Differance indicates middle voice, opposition between passivity and activity. Refers to differing as spacing/temporalizing and as movement that structures every dissociation. Inaudible difference between two phonemes: thus no purely phonetic writing b/c no purely phonetic phone. Can only expose what can become present. To differ is to resort to the temporal. Ending ance is between active & passive. Signs represent the present in its absence. Signified concept is never present in itself. Differance is not a concept but the possibility of conceptuality. W/in the system of language there are only differences. Differences play a role in language & speech. History carries theme of final repression of difference. Differance is the nonsimple origin, structured & differing origin of differences.
