CONTENTS Acknowledgements xi Series Kditor's Preface xii Prologue xiv 1 Thinking about Architecture 1 Juxtapositions and oppositions 2 Totalising strategies 4 Agonisu'cs 5 Confounding oppositions 7 2 Language and Architecture 8 Language and history 11 Correspondence 13 Sign systems and difference 16 Deep structure 19 Widening the scope of language 20 Radicalising Structuralism 22 Meaning and metaphysics 23 3 Intertextuality and Metaphor 25 Writing as a drug 28 Pro to-writing 31 Implications for architecture 33 4 Derrida on Architecture 36 Cbora L Works 47 Crossing the line 67 Space and paradox 71 6 Derrida and Radical Practice 74 Interpretation 78 Radical hcrmenciitics 81 Institutions 83 Activism and the radicalisation of architectural practices 86 Radical pedagogy 91 RAidic.il media 93 Note;, tor Further Reading 99 References 101 Index 112