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The Deconstruction of War: Derrida and the Language of Conflict

By: WPS News Staff ReportersBaybay City | December 1, 2025 Jacques Derrida, a pivotal figure in post-structuralist philosophy, offered a radical re-evaluation of numerous established concepts, including the nature of war, politics, and language. His deconstructive methodology, far from being merely an academic exercise, provides a potent framework for understanding the complex interplay of these…

The Deconstruction of War: Derrida and the Language of Conflict

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On my predecessors From a note to a friend.

You must allow me to digress for a moment and clarify my philosophical perspective, an perspective which is, by turns, Derridian and Deleuzian. You see, I hold that Derrida’s deconstruction of transcendental aesthetics dealt with the play of différance kinematically: in other words, Derrida described the play of différance without describing the forces and torques which affect the play of différance. Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism, by contrast, dealt with the play of différance kinetically: Deleuze described the forces and torques affecting the play of différance, pushing, pulling, and twisting the play of différance in so many different directions. My own philosophical approach, which we might term a “deconstructive empiricism”, is a mechanics of différance, an attempt to juxtapose Derrida’s more sophisticated kinematics of différance with Deleuze’s more sophisticated kinetics of différance. Let me stress here that to juxtapose is NOT to unify. My “mechanics of différance” maintains (i) that the kinetics of différance and the kinematics of différance differ from one another, (ii) that the kinetics of différance and the kinematics of différance defer to one another only insofar as they differ from one another, and, as a consequence of (i) and (ii), “mechanics of différance” maintain (iii) that the kinetics of différance and the kinematics of différance can only be compared and contrasted with one another and never combined, neither one into the other, nor all into an encompassing one.

To clarify my philosophical approach, my deconstructive empiricism, a bit further, I need to talk about how I understand the differences between general relativity and quantum field theory. The fundamental force of gravity, described by general relativity, is a spatio-temporal en-action: the force of gravity is attributable to the curvature of spacetime effected by energy, mass, and momentum. The other three fundamental forces, described by quantum field theory, are (im-)mediated inter-actions as opposed to spatio-temporal en-actions: the electromagnetic, the strong, and the weak forces are ‘carried’ by (im-)mediating particles or (im-)mediating excitations, by gauge bosons. I hold that Deleuze’s more sophisticated kinetics of différance is more fundamental than Derrida’s kinematics of différance only insofar as the forces and torques that affect the play of différance are result of (im-)mediated inter-actions. In turn, I hold that Derrida’s more sophisticated kinematics of différance is more fundamental than Deleuze’s kinetics of différance insofar as the forces and torques that affect the play of différance are the result of spatio-temporal en-actions. That being said, however, the forces and torques that affect the play of différance are always the result of both (im-)mediated inter-actions and spatio-temporal en-actions, and never a result of one as opposed to the other.

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잠비나이-차연(Différance)

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cuando lo presente no se presenta, significamos, pasamos por el contorno del signo. Tomamos o damos un signo. Hacemos signo.

Jacques Derrida

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Pontius Python’s Song

I was there when Francis Bacon pain-

   Ted the Baboon.

(Loved to listen, though his thoughts were all

   Rather naughty.)

Sick and tired, I sired a tick and sent

   It to the moon.

Charm had become a fossil buried

   In my body.

“The Lord’s a vast abstraction: He

   Contains the yet-to-be.”

“God’s never meant that much to me.

   I’ve no theology.

Those doors are locked.”

   “I was there when Jacques

Derrida stalked

   The streets of France,

      And it has made all the différance.”

© Xerxes Bumblesea

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Différance (after Derrida) (Study For)

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Différance (after Derrida) (study for)