Author’s version - Oxford Literary Review 2018 40:1, 108-123 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/olr.2018.0241 Logonomocentrism in Of Grammatology’s ‘Exergue’ Gabriel Rezende abstract Of Grammatology’s ‘Exergue’ contemplates the closure of an historico-metaphysical epoch, that of logocentrism. The notion of ‘epochality’ cannot be reduced to the idea of a ‘period of time’ or a ‘system of chronology’. Reading Martin Heidegger’s ‘epochs of Being’ and Carl Schmitt’s ‘nomos of the Earth’, I argue that logocentrism has a fundamental colonial character. Derrida is concerned with a space ordering, a land- appropriation process in the verge of becoming global. Logocentrism is always a logonomocentrism. 1. Introduction Since the publication of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology, numerous scholars have been trying to make sense of the famous ‘Exergue’ that opens the book’s first part. The strange topology of this text, as an hors d’œuvre that is neither an introduction nor a preface, and its multiplicity — ‘this triple exergue’ 1 — tend only to reinforce its enigmatic character. The scene is familiar to every reader of Derrida: a certain ‘inadequation’ that ‘had always already begun to make its presence felt’ (OG, 4), appears ‘today’, that is in 1967, as such. This event of seismic proportions, one that reveals a contradiction at the heart of logocentrism, cannot be reduced to notions such as mutation, explicitation, accumulation, revolution or tradition. Even though these values are certainly part of the very system that is being called into question here, they