ABSTRACT
The Jacques Derrida that future readers may seek to clarify is that of the initial intervention, a Derrida of far greater relevance to a future present at a more advanced stage of resource and climate depradations. Derrida's generation would never quite engage the biological epochality released by the hydrocarbon era, but rather roamed within it. Perhaps Derrida thought there was continuity with 20th century time that projected generations for him to work through the entrails of the global archive. This future reader of Derrida, from a position clarified by the advance of mid-twenty-first century climate change might well set aside some Derridean strategies as too cloying, or as tactical detours. Derrida's dark American-Belgian double and nemesis, Paul de Man, following Benjamin's 'one-way street", passed over this border, and found it irreversible once done, since the translation event, deconstruction, or transformation at risk would be cognitive, mnemonic, 'materialist', sacrificing any persona and with that, a certain capitalisation.
