Thought without Origin

Is the search for origins a search for ownership?

Consider Ovid / Genesis / the Qur'an / Rousseau et al, and the way that beginnings secure us to fixed futures (see Edelman, Butler, Stein / Ngai, Adorno, Foucault, Artaud: No More Masterpieces).

Recall Derrida: "we have already said everything" (65).

The writing of reading is the recognition that all thought is simultaneously original and copy.

The exception: It is only by proceeding with "methodological prudence" in order to "safeguard[] ... knowledge" that one ceases to think (64).

Thus, securing a thought to its origin, or tethering it to its 'original, correct use,' is the fastest way to kill a culture.