A Letter from Derrida: Of Pedagogy and Difference (Jacques Derrida ‪)‬

Our double fold of writing is in response to Marla's invitation 'to do what we do.' To write into the work. In the doing-ness of the doing, we leave traces of a messy text ... a text one must make tracks with ... in the everyday life of living pedagogy. A text that labours in language to do its work across Pacific rim topographies, in difference and deferral. At the ... threshold, limit, or border ... across the pages of a script. In a double fold that refuses a stability of easy limits, a (death) sentencing of curricular life. What is the reader to do? ... make tracks with ... Ex-tract the reads from fragile contexts and purloin the letters, spill the ink, stain the letters and move them on. We write in language always already haunted by the reader-to-come. Hopelessly enticed into difficult readings with Derrida, we confess to knowingly not knowing whether the letters will arrive. And so we leave a paper trail that is littered with letters ... French letters ... mark, margin, or march ... there is ... perhaps a text ... 'a'