...of the system, the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center...and makes possible. As center, it is the point at wh1ch the substitution of contents, elements, or terms is no longer possible. At the center, the permutation...

...the system, the center of a structure permits the freeplay of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center...itself. Nevertheless, the center also closes off the freeplay it opens up and makes possible. Qua center, it is the point at which the substitution of contents,...

...permits the play of its elements inside the total form" (278-79)—and then again—"Nevertheless, the center also closes off the play which it opens up and makes possible. ... At the center, the permutation or the transformation of elements ... is forbidden" (279). In order...

...words which reinstate the social placing implicit in the designation 'whore'. The centre, for Derrida, is 'the point at which the substitution of contents, elements or terms is no longer possible',15 and incest signals the collapse of the structure of separateness between bodies and families....

...WD, 279). This bonded image engraved itself so strongly into Western philosophical consciousness that "the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself" ( WD, 279). The center that sets a limit to the play of the elements is something that both escapes...

...the system, the center of a structure permits the freeplay of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself. Having established this limiting function of the center, Derrida goes on to deconstruct it: Thus it...

...of the system the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself" (pp. 278-279). That an order requires a unifying principle and that Western philosophy has been dominated...

...Jacques Ellul called his book-length study Apocalypse: Architecture in Motion.** 1 Thompson stuffs 80 "Even today the notion of a structure lacking any...Nevertheless, the center also closes off the play it opens up and makes possible. As center, it is the point at which the substitution of contents, elements,...

...the system, the center of a structure permits the freeplay of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center...itself. Nevertheless, the center also closes off the freeplay it opens up and makes possible. Qua center, it is the point at which the substitution of contents,...

...illegitimate, a construct deployed in order to make the world thinkable. "Even today," Derrida wrote, "the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself." Although a critique of philosophy, Derrida's formulation has great relevance to attempts in a variety...