Collage fragments force a double reading against origin and new totality.

Evidence

The effect is to break (deconstruct) the power of the author to impose meanings or offer a continuous narrative. Each cited element says Derrida, ‘breaks the continuity or the linearity of the discourse and leads necessarily to a double reading: that of the fragment perceived in relation to its text of origin; that of the fragment as incorporated into a new whole, a different totality.’ Continuity is given only in ‘the trace’ of the fragment as it moves from production to consumption. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 348

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the specific ‘double reading’ mechanism of Derridean collage — fragment as trace moving from production to consumption.
• XREF: connects to: Cubist collage made fragments of reality enter art as reality itself. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 238; Books can be assembled like collages from separate fragments; Multi-screen collage could produce overwhelming then tender emotional effects — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 966 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Books can be assembled like collages from separate fragments #expands (0.85)
• Books are best constructed as flexible collages of movable fragments. #expands (0.85) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1077
• Collage and montage serve as the primary form of postmodern discourse. #corroborates (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 346
• Multi-screen collage could produce overwhelming then tender emotional effects #exemplifies (0.80) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 966