To the archive: A postal tale

Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-206

  Chang, Briankle G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 79960448771     PISSN: 14791420     EISSN: 14794233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14791421003790872     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. For a discussion on the idea of "post, " see, for example, Bernhard Siegert, Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999).
2. Epoch, epoche, refers to that which releases, to that which makes what is released possible, to a giving that makes what is given possible. This is the idea behind Heidegger's thinking of Being as epochal sending.
3. he writes: "Epoch does not mean here the span of time in occurrence, but rather the fundamental characteristics of sending, the actual holding-back of itself in favor of the discernibility of the gift, that is, of Being with regard to the grounding of beings, " Martin Heidegger, On Time and Being (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1972), 9.
4. Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 3.
5. Jacques Derrida, The Post Card (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 63.
6. Bernhard Siegert, Relays, 11.