"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets."
— Jacques Derrida

January 1, 1970

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Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms, The States of Theory, ed. David Carroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.