‘The still belongs to a process which is generating effects’.
Form and plasticity are effects of Differance also. Deconstruction is a destabilisation that holds a promise that could be a disaster. It goes on whether we like it or not, it is the very movement of time itself. This is what Derrida terms autodeconstruction – a series of transformations; a series of reinventions going on all the time.
We can involve ourselves in it however, we can participate. We can prevent the event, or try to anyway. Promotion of the event is also possible.
Prevention can be reactionary or conservative. Promoting is proactive, or progressive.
Are all the changes that go in these systems rule governed, or are they open?
If you know the rules you can predict all the events that the system will produce. Post-Structuralists say these systems are open-ended and are capable of producing unforeseen, unprogrammable, events. A deep code is written in our brain according to materialists like Chomsky, but to Post-Structuralists, argued against this and this brings up a discussion of metaphors. I have read about this in the Wittgenstein and Derrida book.
A metaphor is the attempt to break the rules of language ever so precisely.
Metaphoricity and history of language indicates it is an open system capable of producing new effects.
