Because Jacques Derrida “parallels the critical moment of deconstruction […] with an affirmative” (Christoph Menke), he defines deconstruction as “deconstruction of critical dogmatism” (J.D.). That is, it’s an activity open toward the affirmation of the event or the unforeseeable, the incommensurable, which is why he can say “that deconstruction, if there is such a thing, is not a critique, even less a theoretical or speculative operation methodically run by someone, but if there is such a thing, it takes place […] as the experience of the impossible.”