Helene Cixous

Helene Cixous talks about 'structural unfaithfulness'. Unfaithfulness for me is both a direction and a withholding. As with a faithlessness in modernism with Latour, I have lost my faith in structures (and in structuralism, the high church of structures) if adherence to structure means the devaluing of the individual - of their polyvocality, of their meaningful/less-ness, of their ignorance or deification of structure. For instance, the study of networks - long since ossified in the unquestioned rites and rituals of structuralism - by an un/non/dis-believer would become lost in the minute details of the tracery (the 'tracings' of Deleuze & Guattarri), carvings and tapestry of the church. Losing one's way implies there is a way to go. For 'loss of direction' read 'close reading', in the Derridian sense: or, cheekily, the devil is in the detail. The cost of ignorning such close readings is a monological structuration of detail. I'd rather get lost.