Monthly Archives for September 2013
Differance
What puzzled me in the presentation of the deconstruction was the often improper use of terms. The text defines the Post-Structuralism as a theory that “ departed so radically from the core assumptions of Structuralism.” That is true but if fa… Continue reading
Differance
What puzzled me in the presentation of the deconstruction was the often improper use of terms. The text defines the Post-Structuralism as a theory that “ departed so radically from the core assumptions of Structuralism.” That is true but if fa… Continue reading
Link to book!!!
Hello, I wanted to share a link to the book Lit. Theory an introduction by Eagleton, that I found online: I hope it helps:
Click to access literary-theory_an-introduction_terry-eagleton.pdf
Link to book!!!
Hello, I wanted to share a link to the book Lit. Theory an introduction by Eagleton, that I found online: I hope it helps:
http://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/literary-theory_an-introduction_terry-eagleton.pdf
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We are machines…a camping trip with Derrida
“this nonfortuitous conjonction of cybernetics and the “human sciences” of writing leads to a more profound reversal“ Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology At first, I thought I would write this article as a “handbook for the lost reader in the land of Derrida’s text”, but then I thought it would be presomptuous as I am […]
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Nostalgia of the real, or the truth
Baudrillard’s article Simulacra and Simulations provides a rather grim analysis of the world: immaculately produced simulations have taken the place of reality, all reality is lost, all we have left is the hyperreal and the truth has been replaced by simulations that are impossible to determine as true or false. This critique of the society […] Continue reading
Nostalgia of the real, or the truth
Baudrillard’s article Simulacra and Simulations provides a rather grim analysis of the world: immaculately produced simulations have taken the place of reality, all reality is lost, all we have left is the hyperreal and the truth has been replaced by simulations that are impossible to determine as true or false. This critique of the society […]
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deconstruction of the binary world?
The reading of Derrida left me with a lot of confusions. As he argues, differance is ¨neither a word nor a concept¨, but the ¨juncture rather than the summation¨(279), it is ¨a strategy without finality¨; ¨it no longer follows the line of logico-philosophical speech or that of its integral and symmetrical opposite, logico-empirical speech¨, but […] Continue reading
Using Derrida and Deconstruction in Today’s Everyday Life
One of the main reasons that I find reading Derrida’s work useful is that I find it to be a useful tool/way of thinking in navigating the many messages that we are confronted with in today’s world on a daily … Continue reading Continue reading
