Deconstruction

SELF notes for DECONSTRUCTION PRESENTATION:

1)   Affect response to (a) upside down globe and (b) Sun Maid/ Sun Mad

2)   Define Deconstruction:

1)   From OPEN YALE course with Paul H. Fry: “the deconstruction on the grounds whereby we suppose we THINK our ideas can be derived from, from one or another definite concepts”

2)   From TYSON: I, D. Olivia Paxson, maintain that Tyson does not ever give a definition of this term. How fitting! However cynical this may sound, I don’t think she did it as an exercise in deconstructive technique, as Derrida did in “Structure, Sign, and Play In the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (presented 1966)

3)   From MICHAEL RYAN: There are no universal truths. There is no absolute universal. Everything is a signifier of a signifier.

4)   From DR. JULIEANNE ULIN: exchanging the center and the periphery. Developing an awareness for those constructions around you which you may take for granted and as a result, do NOT question. Evaluating the privileges of binaries and questioning why, as socially constructed ideologies, they exist that way.

5)   From ME: Deconstruction is the act of critically evaluating everything in the same way that one may evaluate the written word, or literary texts.

6)   This means questioning everything, especially those things you take for granted, such as that the color white being pure. This helps you to develop a critical consciousness about the world around you. You don’t simply subscribe to the provided rhetoric, but construct your own based on your own needs and desires in life. In this way, you evaluate a discourse; the ideologies of the conflicting binaries present, and unravel them in order to reveal how they, themselves, make a meta-anything (specifically narrative) impossible. This being the case, your interpretation of such discourses, or discourse as a more broadly encompassing term (aka anything under the sun), is unique to the reader because each reader has been exposed to different experiences.

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