Bibliographic record
Abstract
Near the end of his 1993 Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida makes a subtle appeal to a “materialism without substance: a materialism of the khôra for a despairing ‘messianism.’” Here, I investigate the hardly suspected role of this materialism in the emergence of Der-rida’s early notion of différance. I begin by outlining and explicat-ing for the irst time Derrida’s unpublished 1961 khōra interpreta-tion. I then track its implicit convergence with Derrida’s 1962–64 engagement with messianic eschatology, followed by the repetition of this coniguration in 1964–66, in order to draw out the signii-cance of khōra and the messianic in the emergent articulation of différance. Remarkably, at the moment in which Derrida developed the major initial gestures of deconstruction, this coniguration was before him—both devant and avant—such that a deconstruction responsible for the conditions of its own inscription would have to come to articulate this materialism. Vers la in de Spectres de Marx (1993), Jacques Derrida fait un ap-pel subtil à un « matérialisme sans substance : un matérialisme de la khôra pour un “messianisme” désespérant ». J’examine ici le rôle à peine soupçonné de ce matérialisme dans l'émergence de la pre-mière notion derridienne de différance. Je commence par esquisser et expliquer pour la première fois l’interprétation derridienne iné-dite de la khōra de 1961. Ensuite, je poursuis sa convergence impli-cite avec l’engagement derridien avec l’eschatologie messianique en 1962–64, suivi de la répétition de cette coniguration en 1964–66, ain de faire ressortir l’importance de la khōra et du messia-nique dans l’articulation émergente de la différance. Remarqua-blement, au moment où Derrida a développé les premiers gestes majeurs de déconstruction, cette coniguration était vor lui—à la fois devant et avant—telle qu’une déconstruction responsable des conditions de sa propre inscription devrait venir articuler ce maté-rialisme.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".