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This chapter considers Derrida’s writing on “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry” alongside Badiou’s invocation of “femininity” from “Drawing: On Wallace Stevens,” suggesting that Badiou’s thought is moving towards more evocative modes of expression in an attempt to escape the constrictions imposed by the void, and the patriarchal patterns of thought that would necessitate it.
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MacKenzie, C. (2018). On the Other Side of Mastery. In: Badiou and American Modernist Poetics. Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95028-0_6
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