Abstract
Este artículo interroga cierta escena filosófica –una que se constituye a través de la posición de lo que Jacques Derrida llama “la instancia ética de la violencia”. En el curso del ensayo, analizo esta escena cuasi-jurídica a través de las lecturas de Aristóteles, Walter Benjamin y Giorgio Agamben, entre otros. La escena, construida sobre textos sobre textos sobre violencia, exige una lógica de la pureza; es recelosa de conta-minaciones y equívocos. Y sin embargo, se alimenta de ellos. Analizando las implicaciones del texto, la escritura y la huella para el discurso filosófico sobre la violencia, sigo a Derrida “solo para ver” que puede hacer temblar esta escena.
Highlights
Resumen: Este artículo interroga cierta escena filosófica –una que se constituye a través de la posición de lo que Jacques Derrida llama “la instancia ética de la violencia”
A text is a text only if it hides from the first glance, from the first comer, the law of its composition and the rule of its game [jeu]
It might seem counterintuitive to start an essay on violence with two epigraphs that deal with text and literature
Summary
It might seem counterintuitive to start an essay on violence with two epigraphs that deal with text and literature. What Derrida calls “originary violence” –“the violence of difference, of classification, and of the system of appellations”– is inseparable from a thinking of writing It supposes the impossibility of “purity” –that of the proper and of the unique, which can be seized as such only through the differantial effects of iterable marks, traces, and references. “Arche-violence” or “originary violence” would refer to the “violence” of referentiality “itself” –in other words, to the heterogeneity of self-difference (self-interruption or différance) which pre-conditions the position of the discourse on presence In this sense, arche-violence is nothing present. Différance cannot be said to be violent or nonviolent in the derived sense of violence –that is, according to more or less stabilized critical discriminations resulting from the (more or less fabricated) scene which posits “the ethical instance of violence.”. I cannot tell if that makes me more or less innocent
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