What is a text? According to Jacques Derrida is the thought of the author fixed through writing. Writing is not a machination of thought or discourse, and so it is not a form of incomplete verbal communication. The text should therefore be read taking into account not only the context in which it was written but also the intention of the present author. What is the purpose of a given thought? What references do you absorb and how do you expose them? Often these questions are not answered in a particular text, and for this reason deconstruction is born as a tool that exposes hidden intentions, turning the text backwards and therefore the thought.
Since Derrida is such an unloved author throughout his life in the field of philosophy itself, it is difficult to find who has successfully deconstructed his thinking from the philosophy point of view. His work found adherents mainly in literary criticism and in the field of architecture, but also in graphic design, especially in Cranbrook. From the intersection of his thought, his personal context, and the literary field, this exercise was approached as an attempt to clarify Derrida's thought by recurring to typography, just as in literature, obviously making a typographic treatment that clarified the author, making references that complement the main text more accessible. Thus, a text-within-a-text was created, and it is up to the reader to use his patience and attention to read both texts, skipping each part according to the reading moment correspondence, not neglecting any notes or references. The most relevant parts of my personal reading of these texts are also evidenced by a typographic strategy. Because for Derrida, every thought (and therefore also every text) will be interpreted differently by each person, by all the differences that I encounter, all the associations I make, and by the differences of my reading to that of those who read it after me.
What is this text for me? It is a text within a text, and I consider both the inner and the external equally important. It is an active thinking exercise, with changes of references to each reading I do, a way of fixing my own thinking better, and a way of to clarify for myself the thought of this author.
