Word: deconstructionism
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In the irreverent era of Deconstruction, however, one has the book searched as a text for ideological weapons, the author pronounced DOA, and "meaning" transformed into a convenient black hole for the free play of personal metaphors. The game of literariness is no longer played according to what you read...
Johnson's effort in the first section to demystify deconstruction, both its imported and home-grown varieties, raises the issue of its paradoxical success at institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Given the movement's inherently anti-Establishment impulses and commitment to the subversion of institutions, how does one explain...
The signs are everywhere. Black-clad, beret-wearing intellectuals walk the streets, muttering in French accents about meta-narratives and hermeneutics. Texts by Foucault have replaced the once ubiquitous Marx-Engels Reader as the staple on every academic reading list. One has merely to stroll through the ever-growing Literary...
In order to combat the semiotic nightmare that seeks to undermine rational discourse, we must all be educated in the ways of the new vraisemblable. And as the French Freudians remind us, the place to begin is in the nursery. What better way to ease the transition to post-Structuralism...
As Junior plays with his building blocks, he can now learn the ABC's of post-modernism. A is for Aporia, B is for Barthes, C is for Chiasma. D, the most important letter in the alphabet of the nouveau ecriture, is for Dualism, Deconstruction, Dissemination, and of course, Derrida...