Think in multiplicity

Derrida emphasizes the affirmative character of deconstruction, the ethics of deconstruction.


Deconstruction is not an enclosure in nothingness (a sort of gratuitous chess game), but an openness towards the other ... an otherness that has been dissimulated or appropriated by the logocentric tradition ... The very activity of thinking, which lies at the basis of epistemological, ontological, and veridical comprehension, is the reduction of plurality to unity and alterity to sameness ... To think philosophically is to comprehend, to include, to seize, to grasp and master the other, thereby reducing its alterity.

Deconstruction may therefore be understood as the desire to keep open a dimension of alterity which can neither be reduced, comprehended, nor, strictly speaking, even thought by philosophy' (Kearney, p.123-4, my italics). The crucial 'methodological' point is that it is possible to discern the operations of different ways of meaning simultaneously. To think in multiplicity. Derrida's argument is that the unconditional arises as the interruption, or non-closure, of any determinate context.

See Cobussen

Affirmation cannot be simply opposed to negation

According to Deleuze, the Nietzschean "affirmation" cannot be opposed to "negation”.

Instead, it should be read as a multiplicity of becoming that exists in the play of its difference. Here, Nietzsche, as the philosopher of multiplicity, influences not only Deleuze, but Derrida and Foucault as well. Yet, along with a philosophy of multiplicity, poststructuralists, as neo-Nietzscheans, inherit the standard accusations that are leveled against Nietzsche:

that they are unable to account for agency, responsibility, rationality, human nature, community, and ethical and political values.

In Critical Resistance, these accusations are met head on. Not only can poststructuralism account for these notions, but, it can, also redeploy them as a radical means of critical resistance,
which, with a Nietzschean edge, is resistance that is self critical— resistance that resists itself.


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Politics of difference

According to Gregory Ulmer, distinctive features of the new cultural politics of difference are to trash the monolithic and homogeneous in the name of diversity, multiplicity and heterogeneity; to reject the abstract, general and universal in light of the concrete, specific and particular; and to historicize, contextualize and pluralize by highlighting the contingent, provisional, variable, tentative, shifting and changing....

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