Toward a “rigorous writing of the cry”: The Two Artauds of the First Derrida

Cross focuses on Derrida's address toward Antonin Artaud in his book, Writing and Difference and the protestation of Artaud which demands a reconsideration of language in its power where a cry imposes itself and of interlacing the written text with a vital word merely uttered and stolen from all concrete inscription. He mentions how Derrida's harsh judgment proceeds from a hypothesis to be confirmed namely, that one can isolate philosophical or ideological contents in Artaud.