Desire in Ashes

The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida''s project of deconstruction is unquestionable whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way deconstruction cannot be dismissed as ''dead'' nor unproblematically defended as alive and well.Repositioned on the threshold of life-death deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize inter or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.