Cultural Graphology

An impressively original and absorbing study. Fleming has a very good understanding of the way Derrida engages with issues such as writing, the trace, the mark, and the surface, and is never intimidated by his more extravagant gestures. Drawing on her deep knowledge of early modern materials, she brings into the realm of Derrida s thinking a fresh set of examples, written with elegance and flair in a prose that moves with ease and skill among different kinds of discourse and between the abstract and concrete. --Derek Attridge, University of York -An impressively original and absorbing study. Fleming has a very good understanding of the way Derrida engages with issues such as writing, the trace, the mark, and the surface, and is never intimidated by his more extravagant gestures. Drawing on her deep knowledge of early modern materials, she brings into the realm of Derrida's thinking a fresh set of examples, written with elegance and flair in a prose that moves with ease and skill among different kinds of discourse and between the abstract and concrete.---Derek Attridge, University of York An impressively original and absorbing study. Fleming has a very good understanding of the way Derrida engages with issues such as writing, the trace, the mark, and the surface, and is never intimidated by his more extravagant gestures. Drawing on her deep knowledge of early modern materials, she brings into the realm of Derrida's thinking a fresh set of examples, written with elegance and flair in a prose that moves with ease and skill among different kinds of discourse and between the abstract and concrete. --Derek Attridge, University of York Fleming extends and fulfills Derrida's vision of a quasi-totalizing science of writing. Moving from grammatology to graphology, she shows how trace, mark, supplement, signature, and other terms figure in an open-ended project embracing poetry, cultural theory, book design, psychoanalysis, and media studies. On every page Cultural Graphology brings forward the ferocious wit and brilliance of Derrida's ways of thinking through writing. --Tom Conley, Harvard University In putting Derrida together with book history, Fleming presents us with new versions of both... Cultural Graphology is a slim volume, but the horizons it opens up are dizzying. It not only retools the history of the book, but also reinvents it as an inquiry into something remarkable and urgent, which we have not yet understood. --Gill Partington Times Literary Supplement (03/17/2017) -Fleming extends and fulfills Derrida's vision of a quasi-totalizing science of writing. Moving from grammatology to graphology, she shows how trace, mark, supplement, signature, and other terms figure in an open-ended project embracing poetry, cultural theory, book design, psychoanalysis, and media studies. On every page Cultural Graphology brings forward the ferocious wit and brilliance of Derrida's ways of thinking through writing.---Tom Conley, Harvard University -In putting Derrida together with book history, Fleming presents us with new versions of both... Cultural Graphology is a slim volume, but the horizons it opens up are dizzying. It not only retools the history of the book, but also reinvents it as an inquiry into something remarkable and urgent, which we have not yet understood.---Gill Partington-Times Literary Supplement- (03/17/2017) Fleming extends and fulfills Derrida s vision of a quasi-totalizing science of writing. Moving from grammatology to graphology, she shows how trace, mark, supplement, signature, and other terms figure in an open-ended project embracing poetry, cultural theory, book design, psychoanalysis, and media studies. On every page Cultural Graphology brings forward the ferocious wit and brilliance of Derrida s ways of thinking through writing. --Tom Conley, Harvard University