Derrida à l’œuvre: Deconstruction at large, Introduction

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Published: Dec 31, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.44009
Keywords:
Jacques Derrida Deconstruction Deconstruction at large Decolonial Thought Coloniality Race and Racism Institutional Critique Taxonomic boundaries University without condition Hospitality Exappropriation Humanities Sovereignty Language and Power Living Together Planetary Existence Dispossessed Community Event Incalculable Other Otherness Justice Testimony Metonymy Witness Shipwreck Disaster Mediterranean Poetics Text Defend Defense Violence Colonialism Colonizer Colonized Fanon Anthropocene life/nonlife boundary Geontopower Ontology hu(man) Anticolonial Feminism Touch (haptics) Negativity/absence Limitrophy Ubuntu Ukama African Indigenous beliefs Human/non-human boundary postcolonial theory San peoples animal/human indigenous art and storytelling Dream Gift Giving Death Secrecy Responsibility Ethics Différance Conceptual art Sylvère Lotringer October journal Structuralism French Theory Decoloniality Black British Writing Injustice Literature Praxis Latin America Epistemic Decolonization Specters of Marx Identity and Otherness Binary Categorization Democracy-to-Come
Mina Karavanta
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Apostolos Lampropoulos
University Bordeaux Montaigne
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6809-7054
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Mina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Mina Karavanta is Associate Professor of Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and Global Anglophone Literature in the Faculty of English Studies of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She specializes in decolonial and postcolonial studies, critical theory and comparative literature and has published articles in international academic journals such as boundary 2, Feminist Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, Symplokē, Journal Of Contemporary Theory. Her work has also appeared in various edited volumes including more recently “Specters of the Aegean” in Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness, Eds. Michaeline A. Chrichlow and Patricia M. Northover (Routledge, 2025) and “Archipelagic Thought as World Literature: Glissant, Wynter and Derrida’s Genres of the World” in Theory as World Literature, Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo (Bloomsbury, 2025). She has co-edited Interculturality and Gender, with Joan Anim-Addo & Giovanna Covi, (London: Mango Press, 2009) and Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid, with Nina Morgan (London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). Her forthcoming book is Migrations of the Human, Decolonial Subjectivities in the Long Present (Liverpool University Press).

Apostolos Lampropoulos, University Bordeaux Montaigne

Apostolos Lampropoulos is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University Bordeaux Montaigne. He has taught at the University of Cyprus for several years; he has also been Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2003-2004), a Marie Curie Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (2014), and Visiting Fellow at the cluster of excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective of the Free University of Berlin (2022). He has published the monograph Le Pari de la description (L’Harmattan, 2002) and completed the monograph Gastrotopies: Athens 1990-2024. He has co-edited the special issues “Configurations of Cultural Amnesia” (with V. Markidou; journal Synthesis, 2010) and “Learning from documenta” (with E. Rikou and E. Yalouri; journal FIELD, 2021), as well as the volumes States of Theory (with A. Balasopoulos; Metaichmio, 2010; in Greek), AutoBioPhagies (with M. Chehab; Peter Lang, 2011), Textual Layering (with M. Margaroni and Ch. Hadjichristos; Lexington Books, 2017), Écriture littéraire, écriture musicale dans la littérature et les arts (with B. Bloch and P. Garcia; Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2017), Value (with E. Rikou and E. Yalouri; Nissos, 2019 ; in Greek), Débordements (with J.-P. Engélibert and I. Poulin; Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2022) and Repenser la différance sexuelle (with M. de Gandt ; Hermann, forthcoming in 2026). He has translated into Greek A. Compagnon’s Le Démon de la théorie (Metaichmio, 2003), J. Culler's On Deconstruction (Metaichmio, 2006) and, with E. Pyrovolakis, the volume Jacques Derrida by Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington (Nissos, 2019). He has been part of curatorial/research projects in collaboration with artists, anthropologists, and cultural theorists. He co-curated (with P. Rehberg) the exhibition Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond (December 2020 – August 2021) at the Schwules Museum in Berlin. He is currently finalizing a book project around the notion of critical intimacy.

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Khabiti, Abdelkebir. “Double Critique.” Plural Maghreb. Translated by P. Burcu Yalim, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 25-72.
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