I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.
Jacques DerridaIโm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
Jacques DerridaThe first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Jacques DerridaIn Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida