over-valued

Coherence is overvalued and exists by ignoring a multitude of counter examples, excesses, and idiosyncracies. What I appreciate about Derrida is that he makes explicit what other writers try to hide, or are ignorant of. The desire for coherence is the desire to dominate something completely by knowing it completely, and requires violence to what lies outside of what is already explained. The mass accumulation of facts, treatises legitimating methodology, synthesis of information all disguise that there is never enough accumulation, that methodologies are always built on unjustified assumptions, and that there are a multitude of other ways information could have been synthesized. We are obsessed with truth because we are obsessed with our own selves and our own power!

Coherence ignores its own aphoristic energy by ignoring its gaps, by ignoring the jumps and assumptions between the points that it "connects," by creating a form of logic to be followed, when the form itself has no basis.