[lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Jan 19 10:20:43 PST 2015



> Deconstruction is a method of looking at a text to reveal how that
> text is produced by a set of
> binary oppositions

Every text we read on a computer is produced by a set of binary oppositions--"1" and "0". According to Timaios ("sameness" and "difference") and Hegel/Marx ("being" and "nothing") the comprehensibility of the universe and of everything that exists within it depends on "binary opposition." So deconstruction means looking at a text in order to find out---that it is part of the universe, like everything else. This is what their slogan "Il n'y a pas de hors- texte" means--and that's all it it means, folks.

Shane Mage "It [the intelligible universe] does and does not consent to be called Zeus" (Herakleitos of Ephesus)



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