Matchbook

Matchbook consists of nine essays written around, or in response to, work published by Jacques Derrida since 1980. The focal point of the essays is the undefinedEnvois,undefined which forms part of Derridaundefineds Post Card. Particular attention is paid to how that text articulates with the ethical and political emphases of Derridaundefineds more recent work, but also to its autobiographical conceit.

The undefinedincendiaryundefined reference of the bookundefineds title underscores deconstructionundefineds engagement with questions of reading: relations between (slow) reading and the speed of technology, and the political effects of an internationalized deconstruction in a globalized culture. It is in terms of what deconstruction can have us think about the speed of technology and technologies of reading that Derridaundefineds work has made one of its most important contributions to philosophy and literary and cultural studies. The book concentrates on that as proof of the continued relevance of such work.