Writing as Supplement to Speech or The Priority of Speech over Writing and Western Metaphysics
Jacques Derrida excerpt from Of Grammatology “The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing” (6-26); Barbara Johnson “Writing” (340-347) in PDF; Gertrude Stein “Patriarchal Poetry” http://files.umwblogs.org/sites/10281/2016/02/10213330/Stein-Patriarchal-Poetry.pdf
Discussion Question: How might Derrida’s thesis inform a reading of Stein’s poem?
Supplementary Reading: If Derrida left you unmoored, Barbara Johnson’s Translator’s Note for Dissemination offers a helpful gloss of Derrida’s philosophical project.