New Criticals


[1] Derrida, Jacques. Paper Machine. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). Print., 2

[2] Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University, 1981. Print., 74

[3] Ibid., 86

[4] “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” can serve quite well as a guide and companion for “Plato’s Pharmacy." Borges speaks on mirrors and fatherhood, both “abominable because they multiply and extend [the illusion and sophism of the visible universe]” (18), on limits of knowledge, on numbers and cryptography, on a friendship so close that speech is eventually eliminated entirely, on all biblios/books being “the work of one single author,” (28) always unsigned, speaking to themes of anonymity and untraceability.

* Ibid., 85

[5] Ibid., 95

[6] Ibid.

[7] Ibid., 93

[8] Derrida. Paper Machine, 20.

[9] Ibid., 23, emphasis added

[10] Ibid., 2