The opposite ends of the title, Dead Can Dance, which are the concepts of Dead and Dance, can be considered opposite end extremes between life and living, and death and the dying. “Can,” while and as the middle term, both can be either a noun, or a verb. Such is the difference between the noun in the phrase, a CAN of worms, and, or a verb, as in the dance of life, or the non-dance of death. With this in mind it, take a look at this 16 minute video about the concept of
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold —W. B. Yeats Unlike Saussure, who looked at the structure of language as linear, and Levi-Strauss, who looked at the two-dimensional structure of story, Derrida insists that all structures want to have some sort of center, which holds them together. He’s here talking about the history of Western metaphysics. All philosophical systems, or worldviews, posit something that is their origin, their god-term, which is the a priori foundation of their epistemic viewpoint. Derrida says the center is the crucial part of any structure. It’s the point where you can’t substitute anything. In the rest of the structure, you could substitute one element for another, move things around, as long as you followed the rules; there can only be one center, however, and no other element can takes its place. Derrida insists that the center of any system is a peculiar part: it is the thing that created the system in the first place, but it isn’t governed by the rules of the system. The center of a system is something that has no equivalent value; nothing can replace it or be exchanged for it. It is the cause and ultimate referent, the transcendental signified, for everything in the system. The center, for Derrida, is thus a weird part of a system or structure—it’s part of the structure, but not part of it, because it is the governing element; as he puts it, the center is the part of the structure which “escapes structurality.” The center is thus, paradoxically, both within the structure and outside it. The center is the center, but is not part of what Derrida calls “the totality”; so the center is not the center. The concept of the centered structure, according to Derrida, is “contradictorily coherent.” *
Now, for my sound file I created a while back, with me doing the guitars in all of it, the rhythms and part of the leads in the first cut done in the stylistic mimicry of a Band named CREED, and both guitars on the Seek Ye First, with the interlude of The Dead Can Dance, and with an end piece and solo I’ve titled The Black Sea being preformed by me (with no organ-although it does tend to sound like an organ in that it’s amplified giving the illusion of a keyboard entering into the fray. This can be envisioned in either a linear way, or a non-linear way. The linear way moves from the defined form of let’s say a woman, yet when the center becomes destabilized from that center there is therein produced the destabilizing effect of fissures cascading out deconstructing what was once the center of the pronoun to be destroyed. I’ll need to add some commentary below and above various podcasts that will add meaning and life to this track. But, I just wanted to get this to you sooner, rather than later, since I told you I would, and I always do what I say, which wasn’t always the case. I know what you’ll be thinking, at least in part. “Robert, this isn’t very Godly, to say the least, quite the opposite.” And, indeed it’s not, but I wouldn’t attempt to justify it on that bases alone, though I do think it can be justified, justice for the unjust is Hell. And, for that, there’s no parsing of terms..
For those who you who would be interested in considering a presentation with is little more gusto, with regard to the Marxian Dialectic, the presentation below was made to that order: