Iterability names the process by which repetition both enables and corrupts identity

Evidence

Iterability is the name of this corollary … Thus, if repetition alters, it has to be faced that alteration identifies and identity is always impure. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 721

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity is always impure because repetition identifies by altering — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 723; Repetition necessarily alters what it repeats — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 721; A word’s identity requires repeatable difference with a trace of sameness — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 458 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Authenticity as full self-identity is impossible because iterability makes self-presence unattainable in principle #expands (0.95) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 767
• A word’s identity requires repeatable difference with a trace of sameness #expands (0.90) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 458
• Word identity and meaning are effects of paradoxical sameness within repetition. #corroborates (0.90)
• Copying an original makes both copy and original equally artificial #exemplifies (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 36
• The experience of structure is produced by repeated acts of distribution #exemplifies (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 277
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #qualifies (0.75)