Unrecuperably

And yet we are so far from the Elizabethans in that our post-Saussurian understanding of language, with its foregrounding, not to say fetishizing, of inbuilt structural difference and deferral—both that between signs themselves and that between the sign and any fully determinate meaning, let alone external reference—is so radically and unrecuperably counter-enactive.

Unrecuperably dead, he cannot fulfill the hero’s economic function.

To be Indian-like appears to signal a site of ethical impossibility, an unrecuperably undemocratic enmeshment with the land that leaves one as stuck temporally as one is spatially.