For Derrida. Rousseau's texts, like many others. propose that instead of thinking of life as something to which signs and texts are added to represent it. we should conceive of life itself as suffused with signs. made what it is by processes of signification. Witings may clam that reality is prior to signification, but in fact they show that, in a famous phrase of Derrida's. Il n'y a pas de hors-texte There is no outside-of text': when you think you are getting outside signs and text, to reality itself, what you find is more text, more signs, chains of supplements. Derrida writes.