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Martin Bartelmus, « Chapter 16. Is (dark) hermeneutics sustainable? Water, paper, ink », Dark Hermeneutics, ID : 10670/1.9bss73
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In Plato’s Phaidros writing resembles the pharmakon, antidot and poison all at once. Derrida dedicates his book Dissemination to the discourse about the pharmakon and writing concluding: “The pharmakon and writing are thus always involved in questions of life and death.” ((Derrida 1981, 105)) This is not a metaphor. Why? Pharmakon also means “not a natural color but an artificial tint, a chemical dye” ((Ibid., 129)), which dissolves perfectly into water – a quality which also applies to pri...