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- noun the capacity to be
repeatable in differentcontexts
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Examples
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Or rather, iterability is what we mean by institution (65).
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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The curious relation of heil to its own iterability is very much in evidence at the end of Kleist’s other patriotic play, when the impossibly abject Prince
Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist 2006
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a way of thinking about "iterability," Derrida's word and concept introduced in "Signature, Event, Context."
Notes on 'Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.' 2005
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That it is still a matter here of the trace, but also of iterability means that this ex appropriation cannot be absolutely stabilized in the form of the subject.
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That it is still a matter here of the trace, but also of iterability means that this ex appropriation cannot be absolutely stabilized in the form of the subject.
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It could be argued that the structure of this salute, whereby "Heil Hitler" is supplemented with a movement of the arm and hand, aims to mime the iterability internal to any utterance of heil.
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And as we have seen, this logocentrism must endlessly condemn and expel what we may call the technicity of language: technicity, here, signaling not just "mechanical" iterability, but the irreducibility and irreducible unpredictability of mediation. 13
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Man's reading, crumbles into letters, it is crumbling into minimal units of form — form as the product of difference and iterability — within the context of an act of reading.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Formalization obtains inhuman, machine-like powers of iterability in these de Manian readings, and formalization is all the more dangerous when it has been aestheticized and thereby rendered, fallaciously, a property of the
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Peggy Kamuf was right, in the review I cited earlier, to diagnose as Cultural Capital's sticking-point the deconstructive insistence "on the technicity of the idea, on the iterability of the proper, on the divisibility of any mark of division, and therefore on the necessary contamination of any posed or supposed purity."
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
marrymemckean commented on the word iterability
Those recordings don't seem to have worked very well. Please delete them / let me flag them for deletion. -mmm
January 28, 2010