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In spite of the various approaches discussing deconstruction and textuality, the notable contributions trying to connect text theories and a typographic thinking are nevertheless limited to a few names only, without consolidating a purely philosophical position regarding this subject. It is only by an intimate archaeology of the text that we can unveil the structures and constructions that form a text’s reading grid, and it is only in the rhythm of a text’s separations and interruptions that we can fully trace and understand the double movement of imitation and identification that characterizes every text. Inside a text, rhythm is actually the binding link. It marks an inscription and takes place from inside the structures of a text. Whilst the subject’s access to itself can only take place by writing, the history of writing is itself the subject of a prevailing uniformization and standardization. Writing is no longer understood as technics, but as “technology”, and as such it objectivizes the norms of its own constitution and contributes to the spread of knowledge as power. Typography is more than a manner of “representing” the text; it is a technological and “political” instrument used to standardize the languages into an universal “grammar” and “officialize” the cultures. But if writing is lucrative in the sense of an act of interpretation, the analysis of its construction can also reveal its tensions, its abstractions and dilemmas, its repetitions and narrations, and the possibility to turn writing into an act of resistance.

Keywords: typography, writing, Derrida, deconstruction, grammatization, rhythm