Only play, or articulation, opens up time and space. A deconstructive reading is a solicitous reading, a reading which shakes things up by uncovering the otherness at the heart of the meaningfulness, the radical dependence of what is taken to be meaning on how that meaning is only meaning through tha t which it displaces, defers, excludes. T he point here is that history is built in, and is built is as a network of relations, that is differences, displacements, traces, derferrals. Derrida works many other things in his essay , things which it would be more important to study in a philosophy class than in an English class. The Other The central 20th century principle of The Other is also inscribed through difference.
All traces are of their nature under erasure.
So is the concept of being or essence itself.