Disciplines are by their very "origin and nature" unstable--always already differed and deferred from themselves--due to their genetic relation to what Jacques Derrida calls "différance". In a sense, "différance" is what makes disciplines possible in the first place, and it can be thought of as the economy or mode of operation of disciplines as discursive knowledge formations. In light of this view, interdisciplinary endeavors are also always already subject to the conditions of "différance". Interdisciplinary integration--necessitated by the differing and deferring effects of "différance"--should then be thought of as a matter of creatively producing relations-in-"différance".