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If Derrida was alive and more interesting he would have published an essay right about now about how last month's John Mayer thing embodies the primacy of writing in that if the interviewer were to transcribe "...call it "a nigger pass"" rather than "...call it a nigger pass" there couldn't be a scandal, even though the two transcriptions differ not in what they indicate about the speech-act that they document but only in what writing-act they assign to be the speech-act's signified.