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Black lines are drawn. Red lines are colored red. Green lines indicate movement. Blue highlighting indicates lines that are not drawn gradually but appear fully drawn or that are revealed fully drawn by a zoom or pan. www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net arbitrary "The arbitrary nature of the sign...dominates all the linguistics of language; its consequences are numberless." --Saussure, Course in General Linguistics www.PrintablePaper.net What's that? I don't know, but it's not a horse. www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net In Derrida's texts it is www.PrintablePaper.net Paul de Man (1919-1983): "From the experience of reading abstract philosophical texts, we all know the relief one feels when the argument is interrupted by what we all a 'concrete' example. Yet at that very Is exactly what radical poststructuralism rejects. moment, when we think at last that we understand, Paul de Man (1919-1983): "From the experience we are further from comprehension than ever." of reading abstract philosophical --The Rhetoric of Romanticism Paul de Man (1919-1983): "From the experience of reading abstract philosophical texts, we all know the relief one feels when the argument is interrupted by what we all a 'concrete' example. Yet at that very moment, when we think at last that we understand, we are further from comprehension than ever." --The Rhetoric of Romanticism I have read and understood The limitations of this video. www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net "Il n'y a pas d'hors-texte." "There is nothing outside of the text." --Derrida "Il n'y a pas d'hors-texte." "There is nothing outside of the text." --Derrida www.PrintablePaper.net "Il n'y a pas d'hors-texte." "There is nothing outside of the text." --Derrida "Il n'y a pas d'hors-texte." "There is no [getting] outside text." --Derrida www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net www.PrintablePaper.net (Cross fade to live action footage of hand drawing on paper, then zoom out to reveal the makers of the ﬁlm in the studio. This frame then retreats to the upper left in the next frame.) www.PrintablePaper.net (Making of" (Citations for footage con- source texts tinues in this are written in box.) this box.) Production credits are written in this box.) Copyright Christopher Bolton (2012) www.PrintablePaper.net.

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