Derrida and Peirce on indeterminacy, iteration, and replication

Wirth, Uwe

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“…And yet, Derrida inspires this insight: “Undecidability is always a determinate oscillation between possibilities … . These possibilities are themselves highly determined in strictly defined situations” (Wirth 2003:38). In practical terms then, the forensic narrative in question reflects both the specific possibilities regarding what happened and who might be responsible; at the same time, it is trapped in a narrative of fundamental undecidability.…”

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“…Terror leaves traces of earlier acts and emerges anew in unexpected places: It is in the nature of signs to repeat themselves, continuing to stretch their meaning into the future, but never exactly in the same way (though compare to Derrida in Wirth 2003). In the center of town, on a freshly white‐painted corner wall, a set of colorfully rendered logos of the town's best hotels greets passersby.…”

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The Art of Torture and the Place of Execution: A Forensic Narrative

Kane

2012

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In El Calafate, Argentina, a remote global nature tour destination where tourists lodge en route to experience the spectacular glacial beauty of Patagonia, a 17-yearold local boy was kidnapped and taken to an otherwise unremarkable waterscape on the edge of town, where he was tortured and executed. His death, however, was officially declared a suicide. The malevolence of his assailants and their protectors moved outward from the youth's body and the crime site into the homes of despairing and disbelieving family and friends, overflowing into private and public protest, all to no avail. The crime and its aftermath dramatically altered the lives of the victim's working-class family and friends.While their faith in the local police and courts has nearly been destroyed, and faith in relevant human rights law barely ignited, continued communication about this crime as part of an ongoing community disaster seems to infer an unspecified promise, or at least, a stubborn desire, to continue seeking justice with words. In this article, I explore the layered attempts of family and friend's to narrate, counter, and untangle the causes and effects emanating from the youth's murder, the official evidence box, and the spatially situated terror that persists. Mediated through ethnographic writing, the forensic narration shows how violent crime distorts and divides human perception of everyday places with ominous and artful precision. [human rights, Latin America, terror, torture, violence]

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The Art of Torture and the Place of Execution: A Forensic Narrative

Kane

2012

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“…Notwithstanding the above, the idea that Peirce's semiotics was characterized by unchecked unlimitedness was reiterated by literary scholars like Wirth (2003) at least until the early 2000's and even careful attempts at intervention by those slightly better informed (e.g., Eco 1990, who, in an argument between him and Rorty, invoked the idea of "purpose," the dynamical object and the concept of habit all in only a few paragraphs, 38-40) did not stick. 2 The idea that interpretation was boundless was too familiar to generations of cultural studies scholars trained in hermeneutics and its supposed principle of endless circularity (or dissemination of signification).…”

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Abduction, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Interpretations

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Olteanu

2018

Hu Arenas

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This paper is concerned with two interrelated ideas: the first one is that the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was actively engaged with questions of hermeneutics proper and modified his theory of inquiry so as to be able to accommodate objects of investigation that are generally treated within a hermeneutical framework. Nowhere else does it become as clear as in his 1901 text "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents, especially Testimonies" that what he calls abduction is not only a logical mode of inference but a comprehensive procedure for the invention and the selection of hypotheses in relation to conditions of subjectivity explained in terms of a pragmatic naturalism. The second idea is that the advances Peirce made in the field of philologico-historical inquiry can be made relevant with regard to the interpretation of data in every field of scientific activity. Being more than a strictly methodological proposal, Peirce's 'hermeneutics' leads us to realize that at its core, all scientific inquiry hinges upon basic rhetorical and ethical fundamentals that guide cooperation within and across disciplinary boundaries.

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“…I thus offer a reconsideration of the politics of cultural difference, suggesting that prevailing anthropological theories that treat claims to cultural distinctiveness as binaries of resistance-hegemony-as either libratory or reifying, autochthonous or other determined-each only tell part of the story of culture's perduring political and juridical significance. Although each of these perspectives is accurate to its extent, a more nuanced picture emerges by attending to the semiotic "microdetails" of actual social practice in which iterations (Derrida 1976;Peirce 1955;Wirth 2003) of cultural difference, always informed by but never identical to each other, are deployed over the course of sociocultural events. When viewed together, these iterations constitute the dialectic "edge" of cultural politics that shape social action as it emerges.…”

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Pragmatic paradoxes and ironies of indigeneity at the “edge” of Hopi sovereignty

Richland

2007

American Ethnologist

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In this article, I explore the paradoxes of language, cultural difference, and law in Hopi jurisprudence. In it, I analyze the metapragmatic “talk about courtroom talk,” whereby actors frame court discourse in shifting relations to Hopi cultural distinctiveness and sovereignty, exemplifying how language mediates the cultural politics of Hopi law. I thus argue for a reconsideration of the usual binaries of indigenous identity—in which claims to cultural distinctiveness are either libratory or reifying, autochthonous or other determined—suggesting that a sharper picture of cultural politics takes these antinomies together as the ironic dialectics constituting the emergent “edge” of indigenous governance today.

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Derrida and Peirce on indeterminacy, iteration, and replication

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The Art of Torture and the Place of Execution: A Forensic Narrative

The Art of Torture and the Place of Execution: A Forensic Narrative

Abduction, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Interpretations

Pragmatic paradoxes and ironies of indigeneity at the “edge” of Hopi sovereignty

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