Introduction: What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be?

It is in this non-place that the appearance of the effects of deconstruction can be situated, and I [...] distinguish this process from a state, from a "deconstructionist" theory, or an unlikely set of "deconstructionist" theorems.[36] Eco-deconstruction would thus take place in the differantial interstice between these two relationships to the academic economy, between a major and a minor science, between an "Eco-Deconstruction I ism i " and an eco-deconstruction that cannot lend itself to any ontological predication, that can never answer the question "What Is Eco-Deconstruction?" i , edited by Vicki Kirby (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 1-25; Deborah Goldgaber, I Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and the New Materialism i (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Lynes' "The Imagination", Special issue of I Philosophy Today i , "New Concepts for Materialism" 63.4 (2018), 941-55. 33 Derrida, I Paper Machine i , 96. 34 Jacques Derrida, ' I As if i I were Dead: An Interview with Jacques Derrida', in I Applying: To Derrida i , edited by John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys (Houndmills, Macmillan Press, 1996), 216. The privilege given here to the term "eco-deconstruction" might be above all that deconstruction is the thinking of "closure" - indeed of I operational i closure, a necessarily partial reduction of environmental complexity on the part of the autopoietic organism - and as such relates to such issues as the impossible choice, the non-oppositional logic of the ' I pas au-delà i ' (both the step beyond and its negation or transgression, which Derrida draws from Blanchot) rather than any illusion of marching forward towards a more enlightened future. [Extracted from the article]