ABSTRACT
Q: Allow me to begin with a simple question: after deconstruction, what is to be done? How do we act? Let me try and formulate this more thoroughly.
If there is nothing outside of the text-a much misunderstood phrasehow do we move from the text, understood in the broad sense, to action? If there is a deconstructive logic of undecidability, where an event or an action can be both/and, neither/nor, or in ethical terms both good and evil, neither good nor evil, how do we make a decision on the basis of undecidability? If we take key concepts like ‘law’, ‘truth’ and ‘lie’, and submit them to the subtlety of 100 qualifications and close readings, how can we prevent conscience making cowards of us all?
