Auditing Derrida

2007 Kneller Lecture, AESA Getting Lost: Social Science and/as Philosophy

“…Simon Wortham's (2004) deconstructive take on balancing the books, archive fever and responsibility posits "Audit Man" as needing a hearing that can only be judged by the ear of the other who may or may not be "dedicated to the spectacle of transparent, self-evident self-identicality" (16). Audit (Wo)Man is the subject as auditee, able to give an auditable performance, measurable wo(man), visible, where quality is auditable, a public affair of quality assurance, all of which normalizes a new politics.…”