De-titled: gender and the architecture of the double signature in Droit de regards (romanphoto de Marie-Françoise Plissart suivi d’une lecture de Jacques Derrida)

Abstract

Droit de Regards a poliphonic Plissart’s book that assembles 289 photographs within the exact space of 100 pages, like 100 squares of the draughts-board, or the 100 rooms of a house and a Derrida’s texts that reproduces this spatialization distributing 186 paragraphs within 36 paragraphs, serves Beatriz Preciado to ask itself a lot of questions: How to understand Plissart’s invitation to Derrida in relation to this gesture of drawing the line? How to read Derrida’s texts with ‘regard’ to the tecniques of over-writing or counter-signature that are at work in contemporany “lesbian” photography? What is the specific topology of the signature, an counter-signature in Plissart’s photo-romance? Elsewhere the relationship between poliphonc and “la loi the genre” thas is especially relevant to read this book.