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Post Structuralism
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There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a natural world with an intelligible artificial one. If the simulacrum is so well designed that it becomes an effective organizer of reality, then surely it is man, not the simulacrum, who is turned into an abstraction.
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― The System of Objects
― The System of Objects
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Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism
and works against seeing language as a stable,
closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem
or novel as a closed entity, equipped with definite
meanings which it is the critic's task to decipher,
to seeing literature as irreducibly plural, an
endless play of signifiers which can never be
finally nailed down to a single center, essence,
or meaning.
Jan Rybicki, 2003
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― Post-structuralism and Related Quotes:: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Others
― Post-structuralism and Related Quotes:: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Others
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