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Other references: The 'matrix' statement [p.16] is from an interview with Peter Brunette and David Wills in Deconstruction in the Visual Arts (above). Derrida's comments on architecture [pp.124-5, 131] were made in interviews with Christopher Norris, Architectural Design, v59 n 1-2, 1989, and Eva Meyer, Domus, v671, Apr 1986. Sarat Maharaj's 'Pop Art's Pharmacies' [p.134] is in Art History v15 n3, 1992, and Fred Orton's 'On being bent "blue" .. · [p. 135] in Oxford Art Journal v12 n 1. Gayatri Spivak [pp.168-9] was interviewed for Radical Philosophy, n54, 1990. Acknowledgements The author and designer would like to thank all of the people who contributed to the preparation of this book. Without them, the task would have seemed more difficult and perhaps completely implausible. In particular, Jacques Derrida's generous and careful assistance was much appreciated, at an early and later stage of the production. The designer would like to thank Andrea Levy, Judy Groves and Oscar Zarate for advice and help with research, and David King for permission to use images of Jean Genet and Emma Goldman derived from photos in his archive. Also, thanks to Ian Hooper and Nadina Al Jarrah for the kind loan of photographic equipment. Biographies Jeff Collins trained as a fine artist and studied art history at the University of Leeds. He is currently a lecturer in Art History at the University of Plymouth, and writes and lectures on contemporary culture and critical theory. Bill Mayblin trained as a graphic designer at the Royal College of Art in London. He is the senior partner in the London-based design practice, Information Design Workshop.
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Index active vs. reactive 162-3 aesthetic judgement 139-42 Althusser, Louis 57, 165 anti-foundationalism 48 anti-Semitism 156- 9 architecture 118-33 Aristotle 42 art 134-7 and blindness 145-6 exhibition 143-6 Austin, J. L. 80- 3 Barthes, Roland 57 being, meaning of 49 Bennington, Geoff 93 binary opposition see opposition blindness and art 145 boundaries questioned 12 Camus, Albert 98 chora 126--29 College International de Philosophie 150 communication 78-9. 85-90 see also language; speech; writing communism see Marxism consciousness 51 constative utterances 80 contamination 100, 148 context 78-86 death vs. life 19-24 deconstruction 4-5. 7 , 90-7 architecture 118-28 and feminism 160-4 future 170- 1 implications 148 Paul de Man 156--9 politics 151-2 postmodernism 133 Gayatri Spivak 168-9 Derrida, Jacques background 13 defended 10 degree, honorary 6 director of college 150 opposition to 6- 9 reading 15-16 thesis 14 who is he? 3 differance 75-7, 79 Eagleton, Terry 157, 159 Eisenman, Peter 119, 126-30 extrinsic value 140 fascism 153-5 feminism 160-4 Genet, Jean 112- 14, 117 genre 115 Glas 111 - 17, 132 Goldman, Emma 162 GREPH 149, 150 Hartman, Geoffrey 116 Hegel, G.W.F. 112-13, 117 Heidegger, Martin 49 , 56, 153-5 Hume, David 45 Husserl, Edmund 56, 60-1 Hyppolite, Jean 13 institutions 149 intelligible, the and differance 76 intention 86-7 intrinsic value 140 iterability and writing 83-9 Jakobson, Roman 57 , 64 Jews and anti-Semitism 156--9 Johns, Jasper 135 Joyce, James 105-10 Kant. Immanuel 138-42 Lacan, Jacques 57 language 42, 78- 83 phenomenology 59-61 Saussure 62-8 serious/non-serious 82 see a/so signified/signifier Levi-Strauss, Claude 57 life vs. death 19-24 literary criticism 111 literature and writing 98-102 logic 32 logocentrism 45

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Other references: The 'matrix' statement [p.16] is from an interview with Peter Brunette and David Wills in Deconstruction in the Visual Arts (above). Derrida's comments on architecture [pp.124-5, 131] were made in interviews with Christopher Norris, Architectural Design, v59 n 1-2, 1989, and Eva Meyer, Domus, v671, Apr 1986. Sarat Maharaj's 'Pop Art's Pharmacies' [p.134] is in Art History v15 n3, 1992, and Fred Orton's 'On being bent "blue" .. · [p. 135] in Oxford Art Journal v12 n 1. Gayatri Spivak [pp.168-9] was interviewed for Radical Philosophy, n54, 1990.

Acknowledgements

The author and designer would like to thank all of the people who contributed to the preparation of this book. Without them, the task would have seemed more difficult and perhaps completely implausible. In particular, Jacques Derrida's generous and careful assistance was much appreciated, at an early and later stage of the production. The designer would like to thank Andrea Levy, Judy Groves and Oscar Zarate for advice and help with research, and David King for permission to use images of Jean Genet and Emma Goldman derived from photos in his archive. Also, thanks to Ian Hooper and Nadina Al Jarrah for the kind loan of photographic equipment.

Biographies

Jeff Collins trained as a fine artist and studied art history at the University of Leeds. He is currently a lecturer in Art History at the University of Plymouth, and writes and lectures on contemporary culture and critical theory.

Bill Mayblin trained as a graphic designer at the Royal College of Art in London. He is the senior partner in the London-based design practice, Information Design Workshop.

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