points towards an alternative from endless deconstruction, which is also what Wallace cum suis crave.
Wallace reproaches Ellis for failing to offer any alternative, or any insight in addition to what he mocks and ridicules as the 'darkness of the time'. This critique is directly in line with Kierkegaard's view of irony, and the need for realizing a positivity in its wake.
Thus American Psycho …
[...] Derrida and Barth's goals are not to destroy what they regard as both illusory and indispensable notions, but to maintain their unresolvability, endlessly revoking, postponing the determination of meaning.
Here, in this endless cycle of affirmation and undermining, we can readily see that …
According to Derrida, Western philosophy has always privileged speech over writing, and he calls this engrained preference 'phonocentrism'.
