When Derrida played Scrabble

Jacques Derrida famously said that there's nothing outside the text. Il n'y a pas d'hors-texte. No outside text. Then nearly everyone misunderstood his words, including, most likely, me. It made no difference, the pronouncement became the rallying cry of a generation. Whatever you make of it, there's no denial that our culture has been shaped by this st…