"As Hegel was already well aware, there is something violent in the very symbolisation of a thing, which equals its mortification. This violence operates at multiple levels. Language simplifies the designated thing, reducing it to a single feature. It dismembers the thing, destroying its organic unity, treating its parts and properties as autonomous. It inserts the thing into a field of meaning which is ultimately external to it." ~Zizek
"The original is not imitated or reproduced but 'put in motion, de-canonized, questioned in a way which undoes its claim to canonical authority.' . . . . All these acts of dismantling and transporting, de Man elaborates, 'kill the original, by discovering that the original was already dead. . . . [T]hey bring to light a dismembrance, a de-canonization which was already there in the original from the beginning . . . .' . . . . Trope and meaning cannot coincide or be adequate to each other; and Benjamin demonstrates this 'by displacing them in such a way as to put the original in motion, to de-canonize the original, giving it a movement which is a movement of disintegration, of fragmentation.' The movement of the original is like a permanent exile except there is no homeland . . . ." ~San Juan