Briankle G. Chang (born 1954) is an American writer, translator, and academic.
He works primarily in the areas of philosophy of communication, media theory and criticism, and cultural studies.
[1] In his book, Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange (1996), he demonstrates the limits of phenomenology by showing how it fails to address the question of intersubjectivity and proposes a la Derrida the idea of “postal principle” as fundamental to any theory of communication and mediation.
This idea is elaborated in his subsequent writings and forms the perspective behind much of his works after Deconstructing Communication.
While continuing his engagements with writers such as Derrida, Jean Luc Nancy, Jean-Luc Marion, and others, his recent works are influenced visibly by the writings of Werner Hamacher.