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Originally Posted by evollove
Thanx, Glice.
Deconstruction does not equal destruction.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to perform a deconstructive act upon something one doesn't understand. Perfectly easy to destruct it, tho.
((By the way, the very word "postmodernism" gets bandied about quite a bit in the US by non-academics, not just "deconstruction." I always want to ask "Please define Postmodernism for me." It's a trick question, of course, but I bet I'd get quite a few verbose answers. Or baffled silence. Sorry for the snobbery, but I think that those who have trudged through any Derrida have more of a right to discuss these things than people who may have picked up on a few buzz words circulating in pop discourse.))
Also, not to be too boring or contradictory, but an analysis does not equal a critique.
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And thanks to you for espousing similar sentiments to my post.
The problem with these sorts of things are that you come across like an elitist prick, like patronising people by correcting their pronunciation/ spelling rather than listening to the sentiment of what they're saying. However, I do think Deconstruction is a much more sophisticated beast than its usage would suggest.