"For Derrida, undecidability was never a synonym for mere indeterminacy, or some loose free play of meaning. Rather, undecidability was a way of explaining a very specific structural condition at the heart of language. Undecidability was what preceded and therefore made possible the production of any of the determinate meanings that then had to be ‘‘decided’’ for meaning to unfold in any particular reading. Deconstruction was, of course, the practice that demonstrated, over and over again, the fact that these decisions could be made otherwise—and that there was no way one particular meaning could be given some privileged status. Deconstruction did not do away with meaning, but instead revealed the structure of undecidability that made possible the generation of very particular, often opposing meanings. This structure, Derrida would explain in his book Dissemination, was located in that ‘‘knot’’ that linked the formal dimensions of syntax and the pragmatical structure of the semantic. The multiplicity of meaning, then, emerged not from some infinite lexical richness, as he put it, but from the formal praxis of undecidability, which operated in the aporetic intersection that marks a text’s ‘‘weave’’ of intention and structure.
—David Bates, “Crisis Between the Wars: Derrida and the Origins of Undecidability"

David Bates (via Haze of Capitalism)

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12. hookedonsemiotics said: several people make this dumb mistake re: undecidability/indeterminacy, including some critics I really like—Marjorie Perloff most notably
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