I was searching
information for my philosophy IA when I found this:
According to the
philosopher Jacques Derrida if there is a possibility that the language,
expressions and performative utterance get repeated by anyone over and over
again, this includes the possibility of their deviation from their ´intensive
meaning in linguistic´. For example, given that the word `mother` has being use
extensively since its creation, there is a possibility that it lost its initial
meaning as a word. This possibility is call iterability.
The major quality of this iterability is that
language is decentralized. Language does not necessary consist in the
communication of true and false statements. It rather undergoes transformation
with every repetition of its different configurations. For example, Judith
Butler uses this idea to say that the performative of our sexual identity
cannot be understood outside of a process of iterability which also involves a
regularized and constrained repetition of norms. However, this repetition is
not done by the person rather this repetition is what enables the person and
constitutes its temporal condition for its sexual identity. Therefore,
iterability implies that this performance is not a single act but a
`ritualized` production under the forces of prohibition and controlling norms
given by the understanding of the ´intensive meaning´ of that performance at
the moment that it is exercised. That means that what we understand from
something is different from its real meaning. Does it sound absurd? May be not
absurd not should I say wear? To think that what we thing of something is not
necessary what its original meaning was? Of course, this explains many things
as for example the different conceptions of the same thing that can exit in
different cultures. However, it will be almost quite impossible to demonstrate
what the ‘real’ meaning of something is.
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