Abstract: This article approaches the “politicity” of Derrida’s philosophy by inquiring into the specificity of his philosophical gesture, understood in terms of the “delinearization” of the traditional philosophical corpus. This non-linear hermeneutic practice is put into perspective via consideration of Derrida’s work on photology, embryology and the graphic line in order to tease out the major political issues at stake and their importance for post-colonial and feminist studies.
